Argumentative Polylogues: Beyond Dialectical Understanding of Fallacies

• Authors: Marcin Lewiński
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Dialectical fallacies are typically defined as breaches of the rules of a regulated discussion between two participants (di-logue). What if discussions become more complex and involve multiple parties with distinct positions to argue for (poly-logues)? Are there distinct argumentation norms of polylogues? If so, can their violations be conceptualized as polylogical fallacies? I will argue for such an approach and analyze two candidates for argumentative breaches of multi-party rationality: false dilemma and collateral straw man.

Keywords

EN

argumentation; dialectic; fallacies; false dilemma; polylogue; straw man

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 193-218

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-04-12

Contributors

author

Marcin Lewiński

• Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/slgr-2014-0010