<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The aim of this paper is to indicate the systematic place of arguments based on the concept of analogy within the theoretical framework of the Periodic Table of Arguments, a new method for describing and classifying arguments that integrates traditional dialectical accounts of arguments and fallacies and rhetorical accounts of the means of persuasion (logos, ethos, pathos) into a comprehensive framework. The paper begins with an inventory of existing approaches to arguments based on analogy, similarity and adjacent concepts. Then, the theoretical framework of the table will be expounded and several concrete examples of arguments based on these concepts will be analyzed in terms of the framework. Finally, the results of these analyses will be summarized and it will be indicated how they can be refined in further research related to the Periodic Table of Arguments.</p></abstract>

The aim of this paper is to indicate the systematic place of arguments based on the concept of analogy within the theoretical framework of the Periodic Table of Arguments, a new method for describing and classifying arguments that integrates traditional dialectical accounts of arguments and fallacies and rhetorical accounts of the means of persuasion (logos, ethos, pathos) into a comprehensive framework. The paper begins with an inventory of existing approaches to arguments based on analogy, similarity and adjacent concepts. Then, the theoretical framework of the table will be expounded and several concrete examples of arguments based on these concepts will be analyzed in terms of the framework. Finally, the results of these analyses will be summarized and it will be indicated how they can be refined in further research related to the Periodic Table of Arguments.

Analogy, Similarity, and the Periodic Table of Arguments

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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The aim of this paper is to indicate the systematic place of arguments based on the concept of analogy within the theoretical framework of the Periodic Table...

Analogy, Similarity, and the Periodic Table of Arguments

Published Online: Dec 06, 2018

Page range: 63 - 75

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0028

Keywords
analogy, argument classification, argument from analogy, argument scheme, comparison, Periodic Table of Arguments, similarity

© 2018 Jean H. M. Wagemans, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Analogy, Similarity, and the Periodic Table of Arguments

Published Online: Dec 06, 2018

Page range: 63 - 75

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2018-0028

Keywordsanalogy, argument classification, argument from analogy, argument scheme, comparison, Periodic Table of Arguments, similarity

© 2018 Jean H. M. Wagemans, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
analogy, argument classification, argument from analogy, argument scheme, comparison, Periodic Table of Arguments, similarity