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Scare tactics : arguments that appeal to fear and threats

Title
Scare tactics : arguments that appeal to fear and threats / by Douglas Walton.
Author
Walton, Douglas N.
Publication
Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2000.

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Description
xv, 218 pages; 25 cm
Series Statement
Argumentation library ; v. 3
Uniform Title
Argumentation library ; v. 3.
Subject
  • Appeal to force (Logical fallacy)
  • Sprechakttheorie
  • Argumentationstheorie
  • Drohung
  • Dialektik
  • Perlokutiver Akt
  • Logik
  • Rhetorik
  • Argumentation
  • Furcht
  • Argumentatie
  • Angst
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-211) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Fear Appeal Arguments -- 2. Ad Baculum in the Logic Textbooks -- 3. Ad Baculum in Argumentation Today -- 4. The Speech Act of Making a Threat -- 5. The New Theory of the Underlying Structure of Fear and Threat Appeal Arguments -- 6. Questions of Classification -- 7. Evaluation of Cases. Bibliography.
ISBN
  • 0792365437
  • 9780792365433
LCCN
00061299
OCLC
  • ocm44750707
  • 44750707
  • SCSB-1206704
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library