The Fallaciousness of Threats: Character and Ad Baculum
Argumentation, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 203-228, 2007
15 Pages Posted: 31 Jan 2011
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: 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
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