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xx, 148 p. ; 25 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-144) and index, Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION by Hans Vilh. Hansen i -- 1. Overview of Chapters 1-12, ix -- 2. Retrospective: Logic, Dialectic and the Practice of Rational Criticism, xx -- Chapter 1: DIALECTIC AND THE STRUCTURE OF ARGUMENT -- 1. Introduction, I -- 2. Presumption and Burden of Proof, 2 -- 3. Do there have to be \"objective standards\" for assessing arguments?, 4 -- 4. Conclusion, 8 -- Chapter 2: GENERALIZING THE NOTION OF ARGUMENT -- 1 Doxastic attitudes other than belief, 11 -- 2. Propositional attitudes other than doxastic attitudes, 15 -- 3. Nonpropositional objects of conscious attitudes, 17 -- 4. Conclusion: further questions, 19 -- Chapter 3: LOGIC, EPISTEMOLOGY AND ARGUMENT APPRAISAL 2 -- 1. Introduction, 21 -- 2. Appraising premisses, 23 -- 3. Suitability of inferential link, 26 -- 4 Conclusion, 31 -- Chapter 4: THE RELATION OF ARGUMENT TO INFERENCE -- 1. Arguments and inferences, 32 -- 2. Inference, 39 -- 3. Logical pragmatics, argumentation theory and the evaluation -- of inference, 43 -- Chapter 5: INCONSISTENCY, RATIONALITY AND RELATIVISM -- 1. Why is inconsistency a fault?, 46 -- 2. How serious a fault is inconsistency?, 49 -- 3. When is it reasonable to tolerate inconsistency?, 51 -- 4. What about relativism?, 54 -- Chapter 6: POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC -- Chapter 7: LOGIC, COHERENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY -- v -- Chapter 8: LOGIC, COHERENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY REVISITED 7: -- 1. Introduction, 73 -- 2. Understanding a domain as necessary background of any reasoning, 74 -- 3. Is the understanding of a domain susceptible of propositional or sentential -- representation?, 75 -- 4. Understanding, coherence and rationality, 78 -- Chapter 9: LOGICAL FORM AND THE LINK BETWEEN -- PREMISSES AND CONCLUSION 8 -- 1. Preliminaries, 81 -- 2. Semantic entailments, 85 -- 3. Inductive inferences and Goodman's paradox, 89 -- 4. The effect of pragmatic considerations on the validity of…