Scare tactics : arguments that appeal to fear and threats /

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 textb...

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Main Author:	Walton, Douglas N.
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2000]
Series:	Argumentation library ; volume 3.
Subjects:	Appeal to force (Logical fallacy) Argumentatie. Angst. Sprechakttheorie. Argumentationstheorie. Drohung. Dialektik. Perlokutiver Akt. Logik. Rhetorik. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book