Revision and Immortality in Philosophical Argumentation: Continuing Thoughts on the Rhetorical Wedge

Mari Lee Mifsud
2001 Informal Logic  
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.
doi:10.22329/il.v21i1.2236 fatcat:z634tjm2jrhzrfgtp762n3s2ey