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Caton, Charles E. 1987. Is there an epistemic Theophrastean rule for actual arguments? In Eemeren, Frans H. Van, Rob Grootendorst, J.A. Blair and C.A. Willard, eds. Argumentation: Perspectives and approaches. Foris. pp. 305–312.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | logic

Annotation

The author discusses the question whether there is a logic of arguments that differs from the familiar formal logic of propositions based on the possibilities of truth-value combination. More specifically, one aspect of such a natural language logic, epistemic qualification, is examined.