Extracting facts from arguments stripped medieval polemic of context

Evidence

It is curious that Peter the Venerable’s own polemic was not associated with the main corpus in the manuscripts, or, consequently, by Bibliander; this may be the result of accident, but it suggests, as did Vincent’s treatment of Peter of Toledo’s Risalah text, that the European public was more interested in facts about Muhammad and Islam than in argued polemic. It seems probable that in some writers’ eyes the great polemic lay in the selection, arrangement and presentation of supposedly factual material, rather than in such argumentation as Peter the Venerable, for example, based upon it. Ratiocination might be superfluous, even distracting, when a selection of facts — allegations — could be relied on to induce the desired reaction in the mind of the reader. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1302 (#expands, via linked claim)

The Board’s initial contention is that, although this court has disagreed with it on the issues of comity and appropriate hospital bargaining units, we must nevertheless enforce the Board order because it is a “reasonably defensible” construction of the National Labor Relations Act. We reject this attempt to emasculate judicial review of NLRB orders by a resort to an isolated phrase taken out of its context in the Supreme Court’s opinion—a “fallacy of vicious abstraction.” — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1232 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Medieval disputation records were largely constructed strawman debates; Medieval anti-Islamic polemic worked through fact curation rather than argument — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1302; Relying on isolated phrases ripped from context commits a fallacy — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1232 (+2 more)

Related

• Medieval anti-Islamic polemic worked through fact curation rather than argument (similarity 0.88)
• Curating facts functions as polemic more effectively than explicit argumentation (similarity 0.85)
• Medieval disputation records were largely constructed strawman debates (similarity 0.80)
• Vincent’s anti-Islamic method was data-driven rather than argumentative (similarity 0.79)
• Medieval anti-Islamic polemic circulated as a living shared tradition (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Medieval anti-Islamic polemic worked through fact curation rather than argument #expands (0.85) — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 1302
• Relying on isolated phrases ripped from context commits a fallacy #complicates (0.75) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1232