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Pragmatic Arguments*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Perelman
Perelman
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Sometimes we draw conclusions about a thing's existence or its value by considering what are thought to be its consequences. I shall say that an argument is pragmatic when it consists in estimating an action, or any event, or a rule, or whatever it may be, in terms of its favourable or unfavourable consequences; what happens in such cases is that all or part of the value of the consequences is transferred to whatever is regarded as causing or preventing them.

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Philosophy , Volume 34 , Issue 128 , January 1959 , pp. 18 - 27
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy1959

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