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

Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • F.H. van Eemeren
  • B. Garssen
Book title Scrutinizing argumentation in practice
ISBN
  • 9789027268082
Series Argumentation in context, 9
Pages (from-to) 313-326
Publisher Amsterdam: Benjamins
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract 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 they are presented as if they are well-meant advices in which the speaker cannot be held responsible for the occurrence of the unpleasant consequences if he does not get his way.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.9.18eem
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