Scare Tactics: Arguments That Appeal to Fear and Threats by Douglas Walton

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Scare Tactics: Arguments That Appeal to Fear and Threats

Douglas Walton

218 pages hardcover

2 editions

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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', tradi...

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