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The assessment of argumentation from expert opinion
In this contribution, I will develop a comprehensive tool for the reconstruction and evaluation of argumentation from expert opinion. This is done by analyzing and then combining two dialectical accounts of this type of argumentation. Waltonâs account of the âappeal to expert opinionâ provides a number of useful, but fairly unsystematic suggestions for critical questions pertaining to argumentation from expert opinion. The pragma-dialectical account of âargumentation from authorityâ offers a clear and systematic, but fairly general framework for the reconstruction and evaluation of this type of argumentation. The tool is developed by incorporating Waltonâs critical questions into a pragma-dialectical framework
Institutionalized argumentative reasonableness: Commentary on Menno Reijvenâs âInstitutional and Institutionalized Fallacies: Diversifying Pragma-Dialectical Fallacy Judgmentsâ
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