Abstract
This essay explores Johnstone's idea that "rhetoric is a wedge." In particular, it explores the place of this idea in Johnstone's philosophy of argument, the need to confront this idea with argument, and ways of confronting it with ad rem and ad hominem arguments.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2001 University of Windsor. This article first appeared in Informal Logic 21:1 (2001), 51-60.
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Recommended Citation
Mifsud, Mari Lee. "Revision and Immortality in Philosophical Argumentation: Reconsidering the Rhetorical Wedge." Informal Logic 21, no. 1 (2001): 51-60.