Modality In Argumentation

Author : Andrea Rocci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789402410631

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Modality in Argumentation by Andrea Rocci Pdf

This book addresses two related questions that have first arisen in Toulmin’s seminal book on the uses of argument. The first question is the one of the relationship between the semantic analysis of modality and the structure of arguments. The second question is the one of the distinctive place, or role, of modality in the fundamental structure of arguments. These two questions concern how modality, as a semantic category, relates to the fundamental structure of arguments. The book addresses modality and argumentation also according to another perspective by looking at how different linguistic modal expressions may be taken as argumentative indicators. It explores the role of modal expressions as argumentative indicators by using the Italian modal system as a case study. At the same time, it uses predictions/forecasts in the business-financial daily press to investigate the relation between modality and the context of argumentation.

Author : Bob Hale,Aviv Hoffmann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191572296

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Modality by Bob Hale,Aviv Hoffmann Pdf

The philosophy of modality investigates necessity and possibility, and related notions—are they objective features of mind-independent reality? If so, are they irreducible, or can modal facts be explained in other terms? This volume presents new work on modality by established leaders in the field and by up-and-coming philosophers. Between them, the papers address fundamental questions concerning realism and anti-realism about modality, the nature and basis of facts about what is possible and what is necessary, the nature of modal knowledge, modal logic and its relations to necessary existence and to counterfactual reasoning. The general introduction locates the individual contributions in the wider context of the contemporary discussion of the metaphysics and epistemology of modality.

Author : Kit Fine
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191535321

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Modality and Tense by Kit Fine Pdf

Kit Fine has since the 1970s been one of the leading contributors to work at the intersection of logic and metaphysics. This is his eagerly-awaited first book in the area. It draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense. These puzzling aspects of the way the world is have been the focus of considerable philosophical attention in recent decades. Fine gives here the definitive exposition and defence of certain positions for which he is well known: the intelligibility of modality de re; the primitiveness of the modal; and the primacy of the actual over the possible. But the book also argues for several positions that are not so familiar: the existence of distinctive forms of natural and normative necessity, not reducible to any form of metaphysical necessity; the need to make a distinction between the worldly and the unworldly, analogous to the distinction between the tensed and the tenseless; and the viability of a non-standard form of realism about tense, which recognizes the tensed character of reality without conceding that there is any privileged standpoint from which it is to be viewed. Modality and Tense covers a wide range of topics from many different areas: the possible-worlds analysis of counterfactuals; the compatibility of special relativity with presentism; the implications of ethical naturalism; and the nature of first-personal experience. A helpful introduction orients the reader and offers a way into some of the most original work in contemporary philosophy.

Author : A. A. Rini,M. J. Cresswell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107017474

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The World-Time Parallel by A. A. Rini,M. J. Cresswell Pdf

The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814472180

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Foundations of Decision-Making Agents by Anonim Pdf

Author : Norbert Dittmar,Astrid Reich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110856996

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Modality in Language Acquisition / Modalité et acquisition des langues by Norbert Dittmar,Astrid Reich Pdf

Modality in Language Acquisition / Modalité et acquisition des langues

Author : Vlastimil Vohánka
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783868385496

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Modality, Logical Probability, and the Trinity by Vlastimil Vohánka Pdf

This book in the epistemology of religion discusses a wide spectrum of sources in analytic, scholastic and apologetic philosophy and theology in order to argue non-deductively for the following thesis: Apart from religious experience, it cannot be evident (in a defined sense of psychological impossibility) that the Trinity doctrine is logically possible. Hence, this conclusion is drawn deductively: Apart from religious experience, it cannot be evident that Christianity or the Trinity doctrine have non-minimal logical probability. As the author points out, however, they still may be justified, well-argued, plausibly logically probable, and probable in other than the logical sense. The book will be of interest to philosophers of religion, analytic theologians, and researchers in analytic scholasticism.

Author : Alexander Carruth,Sophie Gibb,John Heil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192516138

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Ontology, Modality, and Mind by Alexander Carruth,Sophie Gibb,John Heil Pdf

This book explores a range of traditional and contemporary metaphysical themes that figure in the writings of E. J. Lowe, whose powerful and influential work was still developing at the time of his death in 2015. During his forty-year career, he established himself as one of the world's leading philosophers, publishing eleven single-authored books and well over two hundred essays. His scholarship was strikingly broad, ranging from early modern philosophy to the interpretation of quantum mechanics. His most important and sustained contributions were to philosophy of mind, philosophical logic, and above all metaphysics. E. J. Lowe was committed to a systematic, realist, and scientifically informed neo-Aristotelean approach to philosophy. This volume presents a set of new essays by philosophers who share this commitment, addressing interrelated themes of his work. In particular, these papers focus upon three closely connected topics central not only to Lowe's work, but to contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of mind in general: ontology and categories of being; essence and modality, and the metaphysics of mental causation.

Author : Peter van Inwagen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521795486

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Ontology, Identity, and Modality by Peter van Inwagen Pdf

Thirteen of Peter van Inwagen's essays on metaphysics, with a specially-written introduction.

Author : Michael A. Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136685248

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Coalescent Argumentation by Michael A. Gilbert Pdf

Coalescent Argumentation is based on the concept that arguments can function from agreement, rather than disagreement. To prove this idea, Gilbert first discusses how several components--emotional, visceral (physical) and kisceral (intuitive) are utilized in an argumentative setting by people everyday. These components, also characterized as "modes," are vital to argumentative communication because they affect both the argument and the resulting outcome. In addition to the components/modes, this book also stresses the goals in argumentation as a means for understanding one's own and one's opposer's positions. Gilbert argues that by viewing positions as complex human events involving a variety of communicative modes, we are better able to find commonalities across positions, and, therefore, move from conflict to resolution. By focusing on agreement and shared goals in all modes, arguers can coalesce diverse positions and more easily distinguish between minor or unrelated differences and core disagreements. This permits much greater latitude for locating shared beliefs, values, and attitudes that will lead to conflict resolution.

Author : Boris Christian Kment
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199604685

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Modality and Explanatory Reasoning by Boris Christian Kment Pdf

Argues that the concepts of necessity and possibility originate in a common type of thought experiment, counterfactual reasoning, that allows us to investigate explanatory connections and is colsely related to the controlled experiments of empirical science.

Author : Minna Vihla
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : 9042007087

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Medical Writing by Minna Vihla Pdf

Using data from a new corpus of contemporary American medical texts, Vihl analyzes model expressions such as may, must, and possibly as they are used in medical English. She thinks that knowing how modal expressions are distributed and their pragmatic functions in the texts can help when teaching professional writing to non-native speakers, and clarify how language is institutionally situated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Mircea Dumitru
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192598295

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Metaphysics, Meaning, and Modality by Mircea Dumitru Pdf

This book is the first edited collection of papers on the work of one of the most seminal and profound contemporary philosophers. Over the last five decades, Kit Fine has made thought-provoking and innovative contributions to several areas of systematic philosophy, including philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as to a number of topics in philosophical logic. These contributions have helped reshape the agendas of those fields and have given fresh impetus to a number of perennial debates. Fine's work is distinguished by its technical sophistication, philosophical breadth, and independence from current orthodoxy. A blend of sound common-sense combined with a virtuosity in argumentation and constructive thinking is part and parcel of Kit Fine's lasting contributions to current trends in analytic philosophy. Researchers and students in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and cognitive science will benefit alike from these critical contributions to Fine's novel theories on meaning and representation, arbitrary objects, essence, ontological realism, and the metaphysics of modality, and will come away with a better understanding of the issues within contemporary analytic philosophy with which they deal.

Author : Lilian Bermejo Luque
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 940071761X

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Giving Reasons by Lilian Bermejo Luque Pdf

This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order speech act complex. The result is a systematic and comprehensive theory of the interpretation, analysis and evaluation of arguments. This theory sheds light on the many faces of argumentative communication: verbal and non-verbal, monological and dialogical, literal and non-literal, ordinary and specialized. The book takes into consideration the major current comprehensive accounts of good argumentation (Perelman’s New Rhetoric, Pragma-dialectics, the ARG model, the Epistemic Approach) and shows that these accounts have fundamental weaknesses rooted in their instrumentalist conception of argumentation as an activity oriented to a goal external to itself. Furthermore, the author addresses some challenging meta-theoretical questions such as the justification problem for Argumentation Theory models and the relationship between reasoning and arguing.

Author : Thomas A. Hollihan,Kevin T. Baaske
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781478609018

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Arguments and Arguing by Thomas A. Hollihan,Kevin T. Baaske Pdf

The primary focus of the updated, second edition has not changedit embraces the narrative or storytelling approach to the study of argumentation. The first section introduces readers to rhetorical theorists and their principles. These significant contributions to the field of argumentation and debate include Aristotles views on audiences and the ethical character of an advocate, Burkes dramatistic theory of communication, Brockriedes metaphorical image of arguers, Fishers narrative paradigm, Mills guidelines for testing the causal correlation, Perelman and Obrechts-Tytecas conception of a universal audience, Rokeachs definition of values, and Toulmins model for developing and analyzing argument claims and his conception of arguments as field dependent. Hollihan and Baaskes discussions of these ideas and their applications are easy to follow, unencumbered by technical jargon, and illustrated with engaging examples drawn from current and well-known historical events. The key to the success of this text is the authors ability to show readers how foundational principles of argumentation are used in a variety of real-world situations. The second section covers specialized contexts such as academic debates, courts of law, politics, business and organizations, and interpersonal relationships. Activities that stimulate critical thinking and the implementation of the ideas discussed are provided at the end of each chapter.