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Plausible Reasoning. By Nicholas Rescher. Assen/Amsterdam: Van Gorcum. 1976. Pp. 124.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

Douglas N. Walton
Douglas N. Walton
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University of Winnipeg
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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 1977 , pp. 774 - 779
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1977

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References

1 Hamblin, C. L., Fallacies, London: Methuen, 1970.Google Scholar

2 See the review of Hamblin's Fallacies by Englebretsen, George, Dialogue, 12, 1973. pp. 151–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Morgan, Augustus De, Formal Logic, London: Taylor and Walton, 1847, pp. 281–85.Google Scholar

4 See also the discussion in Woods, John and Walton, Douglas, ‘Ad Verecundiam’, Philosophy and Rhetoric, 7, 1974, pp. 135–53.Google Scholar

5 In this he diverges from Polya, and other writers on plausibility.

6 See Woods and Walton, ‘Ad Verecundiam,’ for an analysis of the structure of appeals to expertise that takes factors of “the domain of expertise” into account.

7 An index would have helped.

8 Whately, Richard, Elements of Logic, New York: William Jackson, 1836Google Scholar. See also Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric, 1828, photo-offset reprint edited by Douglas Ehninger. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1963.