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Scare Tactics: Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats (Argumentation Library)
Scare Tactics Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats - Argumentation Library
Author: Douglas Walton
Scare Tactics, the first book on the subject, provides a theory of the structure of reasoning used in fear and threat appeal argumentation. Such arguments come under the heading of the argumentum ad baculum, the `argument to the stick/club', traditionally treated as a fallacy in the logic textbooks. The new dialectical the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780792365433
ISBN-10: 0792365437
Publication Date: 9/30/2000
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Springer
Book Type: Hardcover
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