PROFILES OF DIALOGUE FOR REPAIRING FAULTS IN ARGUMENTS FROM EXPERT OPINION.

Using the profiles of dialogue method we identify a species of ad verecundiam fallacy that works by forestalling of questioning in arguments from expert opinion. A profile of dialogue is a graph structure used to model a sequence of speech acts surrounding both the putting forward of an argument and...

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Published in:	Logic & Logical Philosophy Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 79 - 114
Main Authors:	Koszowy, Marcin, Walton, Douglas
Format:	Article
Published:	Logic & Logical Philosophy 2017
Subjects:	Appeal to authority (Logical fallacy) Monopolies Speech acts (Linguistics) Dialogue Intellectual property
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	Using the profiles of dialogue method we identify a species of ad verecundiam fallacy that works by forestalling of questioning in arguments from expert opinion. A profile of dialogue is a graph structure used to model a sequence of speech acts surrounding both the putting forward of an argument and the response to it at the next moves in a dialogue. The method is applied to a case of cross-examining a software engineer in a legal deposition in a case of intellectual property litigation.