Informal logic

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Informal logic is the field of philosophy that attempts to describe the logic of natural language arguments that occur in for example, legal pleadings and newspaper opinion pieces. The treatment is necessarily less analytical than formal logic.

External links

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: informal logic

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Informal_logic" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_logic, used under the GNU Free Documentation License