PRINCIPIUL CARITĂŢII ŞI PROBLEMA ATRIBUIRII ÎN LOGICA INFORMALĂ
THE PRINCIPLE OF CHARITY AND THE PROBLEM OF ATTRIBUTION IN INFORMAL LOGIC

Summary/Abstract: Somehow contrary to the intution, partially correct, that, if the attempt of reconstructing an argument as deductively correct (according to a variant of the principle of charity) may result either in the impossibility of attributing an argument at all, due to the weak inferential relation between the statements considered (in relation to the standard deductive one), or in attributing of a fallacious argument, due to the possibility of using of a potentially false statement (an absolute generalization or a material conditional) as added material in the reconstruction, then using other standards than the deductive ones, such as those used in evaluating presumptive arguments by appeal to argumentation schemes and critical questions, may make the application of the principle of charity useless, the present paper tries to suggest that the option for the appropriate standards in context may be seen as an instance of applying the principle of charity itself.

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