The Argument from Definition Revisited: Race and Definition in the Progressive Era

McGee, Brian R.

doi:10.1080/00028533.1999.11951628

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“…Acknowledging metaphors (and cultivating the creative expression of identifying them) is important since people often (perhaps subliminally) reason and argue from definition (McGee, 1999), thus making their arguments to others (and also to themselves) based at least partly from the definition's metaphors. Making plain the metaphors and their entailments seems likely to broaden and deepen the usefulness and benefits of our accounting curriculum.…”

Section: Metaphormentioning

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Reform of Accounting Education in the Post‐Enron Era: Moving Accounting ‘Out of the Shadows’

Amernic

Craig

2004

Abacus

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This article reflects critically on the general state of university‐based accounting education. It highlights the chiding of business school educators by the President of the U.S.A., George W. Bush, in his response to the collapse of Enron and subsequent corporate failures. It draws attention to Bush's plea for corporate accounting to be moved ‘out of the shadows’.An agenda of reform for accounting education is proposed, seeking a greater responsiveness by accounting educators to three broad matters: first, the political, rhetorical and ideological nature of accounting; second, the ‘poverty of discourse’ in accounting curricula; and third, the merits of a better understanding of accounting history. It is suggested that responsiveness to these matters be manifest in a stronger commitment to critique of accounting. This entails implementation of four curriculum themes commencing in the first class in accounting. The benefits of reading and reflecting upon the collected life's work of distinguished intellectual forbears of our discipline are canvassed. Wide‐ranging general proposals for the reform of accounting education are advanced.

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Section: Metaphormentioning

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Reform of Accounting Education in the Post‐Enron Era: Moving Accounting ‘Out of the Shadows’

Amernic

Craig

2004

Abacus

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“…Specifi cally, the required appeal briefs frame legal issues by stipulating different kinds of defi nitions at the same time they cast doubt on the defi nitions used by their legal adversaries (646). Stipulative defi nitions are pervasive in statutes as well as in appellate arguments about those statutes because defi nitions of this type stipulate meanings as if they were indisputable facts (McGee 1999 ;Schiappa 2003 ;Zarefsky 1998 , 5). In the arguments about the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA, stipulative defi nitions are central since this statute defi nes marriage (1 U.S.C.…”

Section: Stipulating Partisan Defi Nitionsmentioning

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Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation

Bustamante¹,

Dahlman²

2015

Law and Philosophy Library

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“…For example, whether a given piece of land that developers want to build on can be classified as a wetland can have significant consequences, and both sides to such a case will marshal what they take to be strong arguments supporting their claims. There has been other work that supports the pragmatic viewpoint of these cases studies by studying the use of persuasive definitions in prominent public policy arguments (Zarefsky, Tutzauer and Tutzauer, 1984;Zarefsky 1997;McGee, 1999;Titsworth, 1999;.…”

Section: Absolutistic Versus Pragmatic Approachesmentioning

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Arguing from Definition to Verbal Classification: The Case of Redefining 'Planet' to Exclude Pluto

Walton¹

2008

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Abstract:The recent redefinition of 'planet' that excludes Pluto as a planet led to controversy that provides a case study of how competing scientific definitions can be supported by characteristic types of evidence. An argumentation scheme from Hastings is used to analyze argument from verbal classification as a form of inference used in rational argumentation. The Toulmin-style format is compared to more recently developed ways of modeling such cases that stem from advances in argumentation technology in artificial intelligence. Using these tools, it is shown how argumentation schemes, in particular argument from verbal classification and argument from definition to verbal classification, apply to cases of scientific argumentation.Resumé: La redéfinition récente de « planète » qui fait sortir Pluton de la classe des planètes a créé une controverse qui nous donne une étude de cas sur la façon que différents types de preuves appuient des définitions scientifiques rivales. À partir d'un schème d'argumentation de Hastings, une analyse des arguments fondés sur une classification verbale présente ceux-ci comme une forme d'inférence employée dans l'argumenttion rationnelle. On compare le format de Toulmin aux façons récentes de repré-senter des cas qui proviennent des progrès de la technologie d'argumentation dans l'intelligence artificielle. On emploie ces outils pour demontrer comment les schèmes d'argumentation, en particulier, les arguments fondés sur une classification verbale ou sur une réflexion qui va de la définition à la classification, s'appliquent aux cas d'argumentation scientifique.

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The Argument from Definition Revisited: Race and Definition in the Progressive Era

Cited by 21 publications

References 17 publications

Reform of Accounting Education in the Post‐Enron Era: Moving Accounting ‘Out of the Shadows’

Reform of Accounting Education in the Post‐Enron Era: Moving Accounting ‘Out of the Shadows’

Argument Types and Fallacies in Legal Argumentation

Arguing from Definition to Verbal Classification: The Case of Redefining 'Planet' to Exclude Pluto

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