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Arguments from Fairness and Misplaced Priorities in Political Argumentation

Author(s) -

Douglas Walton,

Hans V. Hansen

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of politics and law

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1913-9055

pISSN - 1913-9047

DOI - 10.5539/jpl.v6n3p78

Subject(s) - argumentation theory , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , politics , scheme (mathematics) , informal logic , argument map , sociology , computer science , mathematics , political science , law , philosophy , mathematical analysis , chemistry , biochemistry

Argumentation schemes are formal structures that are used to represent types of arguments that are prominent in natural language discourse. Recent research in argumentation studies has identified and investigated many of these schemes. The two types of arguments studied in this paper, found to be used during a pilot study of kinds of arguments used by the candidates in a recent Ontario provincial election, have not so far been formalized as schemes. We call them argument from fairness and argument from misplaced priorities. We formulate schemes for them, and analyze several examples of them from our corpus by means of constructing argument diagrams that fit the argument into the scheme.

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