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24I examine a number of infinite regress arguments whose infinite regresses are presented or described in terms of recurring questions and answers in order to determine whether such recurring questions have any role in generating these infinite regresses, or in disqualifying the recurring answers. I argue that despite the existence of such infinite regress arguments and the suggestions of some philosophers, these recurring questions have no such roles. Some ways of handling these infinite regress …Read more
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30Counterexamples and Tacit PremisesInquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 20 (1): 9-22. 2000.I argue that there are at least two kinds of tacit premises; describe a certain type of counterexample against the validity of arguments, and then use it to identify one kind of tacit premise. I distinguish two classes of tacit premises on the grounds that they are discovered or constructed differently, they have different roles in an argument or causal explanation, and have different logical relations to each other.
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7Arguments about Arguments (review)Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 24 (1-2): 49-51. 2004.
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Louis Althusser, L'Avenir dure longtemps suivi de Les faits Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 14 (1): 4-4. 1994.
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9: I explore the logic of counterexamples by possible conjunction in order to extend their use to estimate the degree of support of premises; address some problems with my proposal; discuss some ways of teaching this extended use; and argue that conditional probability fails to express the degree of support of premises. The scant literature on this topic sometimes presents the degree of support of premises P1…Pn for conclusion C in terms of conditional probability, Pr. I will argue that the degre…Read more
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4W. Peter Robinson, Arguing to Better Conclusions. A Human Odyssey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey, 2006, ISBN:0-8058-5951-9 (review)Argumentation 23 (2): 291-292. 2009.
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12Jacques Pierre, Mircea Eliade : le jour et la nuit. Entre la littérature et la science, Montréal, Hurtubise HMH , 1989, 376 pages (review)Philosophiques 20 (1): 205-206. 1993.