Logic of Real Arguments by Alec Fisher | Excerpt
The following excerpt about analyzing arguments is from Professor Alec Fisher's The Logic of Real Arguments. The key ideas we need to in...
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The following excerpt about analyzing arguments is from Professor Alec Fisher's The Logic of Real Arguments.
The key ideas we need to introduce for the moment are ‘conclusion’, ‘reason’ and ‘establish’. The passages in which we are interested all contain reasoning, they are all arguing a case. We argue a case by presenting grounds or reasons for accepting some conclusion (which need not come at