Profiles of Dialogue for Repairing Faults in Arguments from Expert Opinion

• Authors: Koszowy Marcin , Walton Douglas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Using the profiles of dialogue method we identify a species of ad verecundiam fallacy that works by forestalling of questioning in arguments from expert opinion. A profile of dialogue is a graph structure used to model a sequence of speech acts surrounding both the putting forward of an argument and the response to it at the next moves in a dialogue. The method is applied to a case of cross-examining a software engineer in a legal deposition in a case of intellectual property litigation.

Keywords

EN

arguments from authority; argument from expert opinion; profiles of dialogue; examination of expert witnesses; argument graphs; ad verecundiam fallacy

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
• Journal: Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 79–113

Dates

published

2017-03-15

online

2016-06-17

Contributors

author

Koszowy Marcin

• Department of Logic, Informatics and Philosophy of Science University of Białystok Plac Uniwersytecki 1 15–420 Białystok, Poland

author

Walton Douglas

• Centre for Research in Reasoning Argumentation and Rhetoric (CRRAR) Philosophy Department University of Windsor 401 Sunset Avenue Windsor, Ontario, N9B 3P4, Canada

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/LLP.2016.014