caa a22 4500 463183142 CHVBK 20180406164844.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10503-007-9049-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10503-007-9049-8 van Laar Jan Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, University of Amsterdam, 1012 VB, Spuistraat 134, The Netherlands aut Pragmatic Inconsistency and Credibility [Elektronische Daten] [Jan van Laar] A critic may attack an arguer personally by pointing out that the arguer's position is pragmatically inconsistent: the arguer does not practice what he preaches. A number of authors hold that such attacks can be part of a good argumentative discussion. However, there is a difficulty in accepting this kind of contribution as potentially legitimate, for the reason that there is nothing wrong for a protagonist to have an inconsistent position, in the sense of committing himself to mutually inconsistent propositions. If so, any such charge seems to be irrelevant. The questions to be answered in this essay are: what, if any, is the dialectical rationale for this type of criticism, and in what situations, if any, is this kind of charge dialectically legitimate? It will be shown that these attacks can be dialectically legitimate, in special circumstances, and that they can be seen as strategic␣manoeuvres where a party attempts to reconcile his dialectical and his rhetorical objectives. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 arguer nationallicence higher order conditions for resolution nationallicence metadialogue nationallicence pragmatic inconsistency nationallicence protagonist nationallicence protagonist credibility nationallicence soundness conditions nationallicence source credibility nationallicence strategic manoeuvring nationallicence Argumentation Springer Netherlands 21/3(2007-09-01), 317-334 0920-427X 21:3<317 2007 21 10503 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-007-9049-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-007-9049-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- van Laar Jan Department of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric, University of Amsterdam, 1012 VB, Spuistraat 134, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Argumentation Springer Netherlands 21/3(2007-09-01), 317-334 0920-427X 21:3<317 2007 21 10503 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer