Chapter 17. What is Informal Logic?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface XIII
4. Introduction XV
5. Chapter 1. On Fallacies 1
6. Chapter 2. Argumentum ad Verecundiam 11
7. Chapter 3. Petitio Principii 29
8. Chapter 4. Ad Baculum 47
9. Chapter 5. Ad Hominem 55
10. Chapter 6. Petitio and Relevant Many-Premissed Arguments 75
11. Chapter 7. Ad Hominem, Contra Gerber 87
12. Chapter 8. Composition and Division 93
13. Chapter 9. Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc 121
14. Chapter 10. Arresting Circles in Formal Dialogues 143
15. Chapter 11. The Fallacy of Ad Ignorantiam 161
16. Chapter 12. Circular Demonstration and Von Wright-Geach Entailment 175
17. Chapter 13. Laws of Thought and Epistemic Proofs 181
18. Chapter 14. What Type of Argument is an Ad Verecundiam? 191
19. Chapter 15. Equivocation and Practical Logic 195
20. Chapter 16. Why is the Ad Populum a Fallacy? 209
21. Chapter 17. What is Informal Logic? 221
22. Chapter 18. The Fallacy of Many Questions 233
23. Chapter 19. Question-Begging and Cumulativeness in Dialectical Game 253
24. Notes 273
25. Bibliography 289
26. Acknowledgements 307
27. Index 311