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(1994) Synthese 100 (1).
The aim of this paper is to make it clear how and why begging the question should be seen as a pragmatic fallacy which can only be properly evaluated in a context of dialogue. Included in the paper is a review of the contemporary literature on begging the question that shows the gradual emergence over the past twenty years or so of the dialectical conception of this fallacy. A second aim of the paper is to investigate a number of general problems raised by the pragmatic framework.
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DOI: 10.1007/BF01063922
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Walton, D. N. (1994). Begging the question as a pragmatic fallacy. Synthese 100 (1), pp. 95-131.
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