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    All fallacies are ultimately attributable to the rhetorical dimension of argumentation

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    • 1.All derailments of strategic maneuvering are fallacies in the sense that they violate one or more rules for critical discussion
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    • 2.All fallacies can be viewed as derailments of strategic maneuvering
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    • 3.Strategic maneuvering is the entry of rhetoric into argumentation discussions
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    • 1.Formal fallacies like affirming the consequent are invalid regardless of rhetorical context or persuasive intent.
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    • 2.John Stuart Mill and medieval logicians identified purely structural errors in inference that precede any rhetorical act.
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    • 3.If some fallacies are constituted entirely by logical form, rhetoric cannot be the ultimate explanatory ground of all fallacies.
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    • 1.Pragma-dialectics conflates the normative violation of a fallacy with its causal origin in strategic speech acts.
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    • 2.A fallacy can occur in solitary reasoning with no audience, as Descartes demonstrated in his Meditations when cataloguing self-directed errors.
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    • 3.What makes an error a fallacy is its epistemic defect, not its rhetorical deployment, so rhetoric is sufficient but not necessary for fallacy.
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    The Pragma-dialectical analysis of fallacies as rule-breakings in a procedure for overcoming disagreements has recently been expanded to take account of the rhetorical dimension of argumentation. Pragma-dialectics takes the rhetorical dimension to stem from an arguer’s wish to have their view accepted which leads dialoguers to engage in strategic maneuvering vis-à-vis their dialogue partners. However, this desire must be put in balance with the dialectical requirement of being reasonable; that i
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