#3828. Associating Ethos with Objects: Reasoning from Character of Public Figures to Actions in the World

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Abstract:
Ethotic arguments, such as arguments from expert opinion and ad hominem arguments, play an important role in communication practice. These subspecies of ethotic arguments are very common in public debates: societies are involved in heated disputes about what should be done with monuments of historical figures such as Stalin or Colston. Should we demolish the building they funded? Should the street named after them be renamed? The reasoning step here is legitimised by the association between a person and an extra-linguistic object: the association between a historical figure and their statue or between an actor and their movie. The nature of this association is explained in the paper using Peirce’s theory of signs. We propose to extend an existing approach to patterns of reasoning from ethos that will help us to shed new light on ethotic argumentation and open an avenue for a systematic account of these unexplored argument forms.
Keywords:
Argumentation schemes; Critical questions; Ethos; Ethotic arguments; Peirce’s theory of signs

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