Revision and Immortality in Philosophical Argumentation: Continuing Thoughts on the Rhetorical Wedge

Informal Logic 21 (1) (2001)
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This essay explores Johnstone's idea that "rhetoric is a wedge." In particular, it explores the place of this idea in Johnstone's philosophy of argument, the need to confront this idea with argument, and ways of confronting it with ad rem and ad hominem arguments

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