Chapter
Enthymematic Arguments
Abstract
Enthymematic arguments are arguments appropriately appraised by a deductive standard whose premiss or premisses are partially topically relevant to their conclusion. The author of an enthymematic argument implicitly assumes the truth of a universal generalization of the argument’s associated conditional with respect to one or more content expressions which occur more than once. Unless it would be implausible, where a molecular content …
Authors
Hitchcock D
Pagination
pp. 39-56
Publication Date
4 2017
ISBN-13
9783319535616
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-53562-3_4