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| ISBN: | 0511062710
9780511062711
9780511840005
0511840004
9780511297366
051129736X
0521827485
0521534836
9780521827485
9780521534833
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240) and indexes.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Traditionally, logic has been claimed to be 'the science of rational argument', but the relevance to our everyday disputes of the formal logician's results has remained unclear. The abstract character of traditional logic cuts the subject off from practical considerations; Mr Toulmin enquires why this is so, and shows how an alternative conception can be of more general value. Starting from an examination of the actual procedures in different fields of argument - the practice, as opposed to the theory, of logic - he discloses a richer variety than is allowed for by any available system. He argues that jurisprudence rather than mathematics should be the logician's model in analysing rational procedures, and that logic should be a comparative and not a purely formal study. These suggestions lead to conclusions which many will consider controversial; though they will also be widely recognized as interesting and illuminating. This book extends into general philosophy lines of enquiry already sketched by Mr Toulmin in his earlier books on ethics and the philosophy of science. The ordinary reader will find in it the same clarity and intelligibility; and the professional philosopher will acknowledge the same power to break new ground (and circumvent old difficulties) by posing fresh and stimulating questions.
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| Other form: | Print version: Toulmin, Stephen Edelston. Uses of argument. Updated ed. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521827485 0521534836
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