The Fallaciousness of Threats: Character and Ad Baculum

Argumentation, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 203-228, 2007

15 Pages Posted: 31 Jan 2011

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Fabrizio Macagno

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Douglas Walton

University of Winnipeg - Department of Philosophy

Date Written: 2007

Abstract

Robert Kimball, in “What’s Wrong with Argumentum Ad Baculum?” (Argumentation, 2006) argues that dialogue-based models of rational argumentation do not satisfactorily account for what is objectionable about more malicious uses of threats encountered in some ad baculum arguments. We review the dialogue-based approach to argumentum ad baculum, and show how it can offer more than Kimball thinks for analyzing such threat arguments and ad baculum fallacies.

Keywords: fallacies, emotions, ethics, argumentation, inferences, context

Suggested Citation

Macagno, Fabrizio and Walton, Douglas, The Fallaciousness of Threats: Character and Ad Baculum (2007). Argumentation, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 203-228, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1751656

Fabrizio Macagno (Contact Author)

Universidade Nova de Lisboa ( email )

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Portugal

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Douglas Walton

University of Winnipeg - Department of Philosophy ( email )

Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 2E9
Canada

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