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Eemeren, Frans H. van, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels 2015 The disguised ad baculum fallacy empirically investigated: Strategic maneuvering with threats Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 313–326 | Article

Ad baculum threats can be seen as a mode of strategic maneuvering which takes on a reasonable appearance in real life situations when it mimics, legitimate pragmatic argumentation. In this paper the hypothesis was tested that ad baculum fallacies are seen as less unreasonable than clear cases when… read more

Schulz, Peter J. and Bert Meuffels 2014 “It is about our body, our own body!”: On the difficulty of telling Dutch women under 50 that mammography is not for them Argumentation and Health, Rubinelli, Sara and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 129–141 | Article

This chapter is concerned with the reasons why sometimes good arguments in health communication leaflets fail to convince the targeted audience. As an illustrative example it uses the age-dependent eligibility of women in the Netherlands to receive routine breast cancer screening examinations:… read more

Schulz, Peter J. and Bert Meuffels 2012 “It is about our body, our own body!”: On the difficulty of telling dutch women under 50 that mammography is not for them Argumentation and Health, Rubinelli, Sara and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 130–142 | Article

This article is concerned with the reasons why sometimes good arguments in health communication leaflets fail to convince the targeted audience. As an illustrative example it uses the age-dependent eligibility of women in the Netherlands to receive routine breast cancer screening examinations:… read more

Schulz, Peter J. and Bert Meuffels 2011 Breast cancer screening: A case in point Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren, Feteris, Eveline T., Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (eds.), pp. 117–134 | Article

Eemeren, Frans H. van, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels 2008 Reasonableness in confrontation: Empirical evidence concerning the assessment of ad hominem fallacies Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Bart Garssen (eds.), pp. 181–195 | Article

Eemeren, Frans H. van, Bart Garssen and Bert Meuffels 2005 22. The conventional validity of the pragma-dialectal freedom rule Argumentation in Practice, Eemeren, Frans H. van and Peter Houtlosser (eds.), pp. 349–365 | Chapter