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PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London.
One-sided argument
Many decisions persons may weigh in have advantages and disadvantages. The fallacy of one-sided assessment is fallen into when only one side of a case is taken into consideration. (158).
Pros and cons should be evaluated in order to make judgements based on the balance. (158-159). This fallacy can err on only counting the advantages or disadvantages in regard to an issue. Relevant material is omitted from arguments in order to achieve a one-sided argument. (159). This entry is quite similar to the previous entry I reviewed from Pirie: Omitting the benefit.
Providing two or more sides on an argument and supporting theology and philosophy with methodology was very much emphasized to me within my British academic studies at the University of Wales.
Besides this approach providing more potential objectivity, at least, in the evaluation if arguments; it also disciplines the academic mind to reasonably consider alternative views. This is an approach which in theory should make an academic less biased and partisan, but unfortunately at times within academia, supposed objectivity and reason can be limited to within a school of thought and its worldview.
This occurred when I attended the University of Manchester as my kind tutor was away for the year. My developing Reformed views on theodicy were deemed academically unacceptable by the temporary tutors. Instead, I was to embrace secular perspectives in regard to theodicy.
I was to embrace, one-sided premises and conclusions determined by the academy. Thankfully, the University of Wales, equally prestigious in the fields of Theology and Philosophy of Religion, provided more academic freedom.
BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York. (Philosophy).
PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London.
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY (1995) Della Thompson (ed.), Oxford, Clarendon Press.
