Open AccessThe TRUE Test of Linkage
Author(s) -
Mark Vorobej
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
informal logic
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.368
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2293-734X
pISSN - 0824-2577
DOI - 10.22329/il.v16i3.2454
Subject(s) - premise , intuition , linkage (software) , epistemology , test (biology) , philosophy , paleontology , chemistry , biochemistry , biology , gene
There are many radically different ways of understanding the distinction between linked and convergent arguments. This paper provides a generic model which enables one to articulate in a rigorous manner the important differences as well as the underlying similarities that exist between competing proposals. In addition, the paper offers a TRUE (Type Reduction Upon Elimination) test for distinguishing linked from convergent arguments which best captures the informal intuition that linked arguments are especially vulnerable to local criticisms pertaining to premise acceptability.