What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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SOLVED. Nonfiction, Book on Rhetoric [s]
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Do you have any idea of how many chapters there were, or an approximate page count? Was the Fallacies chapter in the middle, or towards the end of the book?
I'd say the book has some 300-350 pages, which would mean the Fallacies chapter is somewhere around the middle of the book. I think, but I may easily be wrong, that the cover may have been light blue.
Kris, thank you for the link, I see the definitions are exactly the same as the ones I used. Too bad no source was cited.
Those may be classical definitions, used by *everybody*.ie: They sound like the definitions I learnt as well.
Naturally, there's little in those definitions that might vary.In any case, thanks, I'll find my way around it.
I just realized I have a photocopy of pages 165 through 177.On the left pages the title is Chapter 3 and on the right The Toulmin Method and Problems in Reasoning. Activities are inserted with passages from Richard Paul (Activity 13, page 167) or John Gray's Men, Women and Relationships (on the following page). I don't know what else to add except that they're grouped into the following categories: Problems of insufficient evidence and Problems based on irrelevant information, at least in the part I have.
Hope this sheds some new light on the issue.
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https://www.amazon.ca/Discovering-Arg...
Table of Contents
"Chapter 3: THE TOULMIN METHOD AND PROBLEMS IN REASONING"
Kris, thank you so much!And in such a short time!
And the best part is - there actually ought to be a copy of it in my dilapidated faculty library.
Thanks again, I declare this problem magnificently solved!
This one I have is really going to be a pickle. The book in question deals with rhetoric, it's in English, of course, and it looks somewhat like George Yule's The Study of English and that type of publications. The problem, however, is the fact that I only read a chapter of it which I needed for my research, and never took a look at the front page, hence I don't have the slightest idea what it's called, who wrote it and what color it is. I only vaguely remember that its title wasn't very specific. By this I mean that it may have been something formulaic like "the study of", "a coursebook of", etc.
The best I can do is to put up some quotes. I was dealing with fallacies so I wrote down some definitions and the numbers of the pages they appear on so that may help. For instance, on page 166 the book talks about Overgeneralizing and defines it as "drawing a larger conclusion than the evidence supports". Or, on page 173 it talks about Guilt by Association and defines it as "an assumption that you are like those you associate with". Or, page 175, Plain folks, "an appeal that implies you should follow the ordinary citizen, the man in the street, the simple folk".
I would immensely appreciate any help.
Thanks