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Dewey Decimal Number: 160
EAN: 9780271016948
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 0271016949
Label: Pennsylvania State University Press
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania State University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 281
Publication Date: 1997-12
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Studio: Pennsylvania State University Press
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Designed to be a pragmatic approach, based on developments in argumentative theory and analyzing appeal to expert opinion as a form of argument. The book identifies the requirements that make an appeal to expert opinion a reasonable or unreasonable argument.
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- Thorough study of argumentative use of expert opinionMr. Walton is thorough in his analysis of the history, nature, meaning and use of "appeals to expert opinion" in argument. This is a practical book which has helped me calm down a little when I'm talking to experts or listening to someone quote an expert. That was the author's intent, I think, so this book is successful in what it set out to do. Although Mr. Walton's writing sometimes annoyed me with repetition, after finishing the book I did feel that I had covered every conceivable angle of ... Read More
