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Questions, Presuppositions and Fallacies
Autor(es)
Materia
Presupposition
Pragmatics
Dialectical move
Fallacy of complex question
Fallacy of many questions
Informative presupposition
Persuasive presupposition
Clasificación UNESCO
7205.02 Filosofía de la Lógica
Fecha de publicación
2022-03-28
Editor
Springer
Citación
Moldovan, A. (2022). Questions, Presuppositions and Fallacies. Argumentation 36, 287–303. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-022-09566-6
Resumen
[EN] In this paper I focus on the fallacy known as Complex Question or Many Ques tions. After a brief introduction, in Sect. 2 I highlight its pragmatic dimension, and in Sect. 3 its dialectical dimension. In Sect. 4 I present two accounts of this fallacy developed in argumentation theory, Douglas Walton’s and the Pragma-Dialectics’, which have resources to capture both its pragmatic and its dialectical nature. How ever, these accounts are unsatisfactory for various reasons. In Sect. 5 I focus on the pragmatic dimension of the fallacy and I suggest amendments to the accounts mentioned drawing on the study of the phenomenon of presupposition in theoretical pragmatics. I argue that the central notion in the defnition of the fallacy is that
of an informative presupposition. In Sect. 6 I focus on the dialectical dimension of the fallacy. This dimension needs to be explicitly acknowledged in the defnition of the fallacy in order to distinguish it from a diferent, non-dialectical, fallacious argumentative move involving presuppositions.
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ISSN
0920-427X
DOI
10.1007/s10503-022-09566-6
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Publicación en abierto financiada por el Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Castilla y León (BUCLE), con cargo al Programa Operativo 2014ES16RFOP009 FEDER 2014-2020 DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN, Actuación:20007-CL - Apoyo Consorcio BUCLE.