One-Sided Arguments PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics

One-Sided Arguments PHILOSOPHY / MetaphysicsA practical manual for evaluating bias that will be useful to anyone who has to deal with arguments, whether in academic reading or writing, or in everyday conversation. 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

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focusing on the progressive structure of the argument

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and adapts it to twenty-first-century concerns

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