This paper analyzes selected examples of uses of argumentation tactics that exploit emotive language, many of them criticized as deceptive and even fallacious by classical and recent sources, including current informal logic textbooks. The analysis is based on six argumentation schemes, and an account of the dialectical setting in which these schemes are used. The three conclusions are (1) that...

Analytically oriented psychotherapy (AOP) has been considered the treatment of choice for borderline patients and a useful technique in the treatment of schizotypal patients. There are many exceptions, however, in addition to a number of borderline and schizotypal patients who are just barely amenable to this modality: they are at the border of treatability by AOP. Limitations relating to time,...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Psychodynamic psychotherapy (PDT) is an effective treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD), but not all clients with MDD can receive psychotherapy. Using the Internet to provide psychodynamic treatments is one way of improving access to psychological treatments for MDD. The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to investigate the efficacy of an Internet-based psyc...

This paper focuses on the blending of a plane with surfaces of revolution relying on Dupin cyclides, which are algebraic surfaces of degree 4 discovered by the French mathematician Pierre-Charles Dupin early in the 19th century. A general algorithm is presented for the construction of two kinds of blends: pillar and recipient. This algorithm uses Rational Quadric Bézier Curves (RQBCs) to model ...

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit pragmatischen Funktionen von Diminutivsuffixen im argentinischen Comic Mafalda des Zeichners Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón (Quino). Als Zeichen der gesprochenen Umgangssprache finden Diminutive häufig in Nähesprache bzw. schriftsprachlichen Bereich sog. fingierten Mündlichkeit. Besonders Comics begegnet man dieser besonderen Form graphischen Realisie...

The first part of this paper briefly presents the phenomenon post-truth, which is then confronted with emotivism, a position 20th-century ethics or metaethics that ascribes an emotive and evocative meaning to ethical judgements, rather than descriptive one. second shows theories two main representatives view, namely A.J. Ayer Charles Stevenson. third focuses on objections primarily presented by...

BACKGROUND The number of patients suffering from unexplained chest pain (UCP) is increasing. Intervention programmes are needed to reduce the chest pain and suffering experienced by these patients and effective preventive strategies are also required to reduce the incidence of these symptoms. The aim of this study was to describe general coping strategies in patients with UCP and examine the re...