The disguised ad baculum fallacy empirically investigated: Strategic maneuvering with threats

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • F.H. van Eemeren
Book title Reasonableness and Effectiveness in Argumentative Discourse: Fifty Contributions to the Development of Pragma-Dialectics
ISBN
  • 9783319209548
Series Argumentation Library, 27
Pages (from-to) 813-824
Publisher Cham: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract Threatening the other discussion party with negative, unpleasant consequences—for instance, by threatening him with physical violence or (more subtly) by threatening him implicitly with sanctions—if that party is not willing to refrain from advancing a particular standpoint or from casting doubt on a particular standpoint, is an outspoken example of a fallacy ("Of course, you can hold that view, but then you should realize that it will very hard for me to control my men in response to you").
Document type Chapter
Language English
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