Scare Tactics Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats / by Douglas Walton.

Scare Tactics, the first book on the subject, provides a theory of the structure of reasoning used in fear and threat appeal argumentation. Such arguments come under the heading of the argumentum ad baculum, the ̀argument to the stick/club', traditionally treated as a fallacy in the logic textb...

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Main Author: Walton, Douglas (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Edition:1st ed. 2000.
Series:Argumentation Library, 3
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505 0 |a 1: Fear Appeal Arguments -- 2: Ad Baculum in the Logic Textbooks -- 3: Ad Baculum in Argumentation Today -- 4: The Speech Act of Making a Threat -- 5: The New Theory of the Underlying Structure of Fear and Threat Appeal Arguments -- 6: Questions of Classification -- 7: Evaluation of Cases. 
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