One-Sided Arguments: A Dialectical Analysis of Bias
We often feel that an argument should be doubted or held as suspicious because it has a bias. But bias isn't always wrong. It is a normal phenomenon in advocacy argumentation, and in many cases it is to be expected. Yet sometimes bias can be quite harmful in argumentation. In this book, bias is defined as one-sided advocacy of a point of view in argumentation. It is shown to be harmful, or properly subject to critical condemnation, only when the dialogue exchange is supposed to be a balanced, two-sided exchange of viewpoints.The book concedes the postmodernist premise that bias is quite normal in everyday conversational arguments, and that a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7914-4268-5
- EAN: 9780791442685
- Produktnummer: 1637394
- Verlag: St Univ Of New York Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
- Seitenangabe: 295 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D1.7 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
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