Historical Foundations of Informal Logic

In response to the growing recognition of informal logic as a discipline in its own right, this collection of essays from leading contributors in the field provides the formative knowledge and historical context required to understand the development of a so far little studied subject area.

Thus , dialectic was useful in everyday reasoning about human affairs whether personal , political or religious . It was essential to the conduct of commercial , legal and medical proceedings . As a critical discipline dialectic guided ...