What hamblin's book fallacies was about

Abstract

The discussion of formal dialogue in Chapter Eight of Hamblin's book Fallacies is not so much an outgrowth of the preceding discussion of fallacies; rather, fallacies provided an illustration of how otherwise intractable questions about logic could be transformed by being considered in the context of dialogue. Hamblin's view that this is the best way to understand logic can be seen as combining the strengths of the kind of philosophy which emphasised formal logic, as exemplified by Hamblin's teacher Karl Popper, with those of the kind of philosophy which emphasised the variety of ordinary language, as inspired by the later work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. © Jim Mackenzie. Informal Logic.