The fallaciousness of threats: Character and Ad Baculum

Douglas Walton; Fabrizio MacAgno

doi:10.1007/s10503-006-9018-7

The fallaciousness of threats: Character and Ad Baculum

Douglas Walton, Fabrizio MacAgno

Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)

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Abstract

Robert Kimball, in "What's Wrong with Argumentum Ad Baculum?" (Argumentation, 2006) argues that dialogue-based models of rational argumentation do not satisfactorily account for what is objectionable about more malicious uses of threats encountered in some ad baculum arguments. We review the dialogue-based approach to argumentum ad baculum, and show how it can offer more than Kimball thinks for analyzing such threat arguments and ad baculum fallacies.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	63-81
Number of pages	19
Journal	Argumentation
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-006-9018-7
Publication status	Published - Mar 2007

Keywords

Abductive reasoning
Dialectical argumentation
Fallacies
Negotiation
Threats
Virtue ethics

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