FROM THE EDITORS 

The five articles in this issue range widely over the landscape of informal logic 
and reasoning. 

In "Charity and the Reiteration Problem for Enthymemes," Dale Jacquette deals 
with the vexing issue of providing missing premises. We know that any enthymeme 
can be made valid by adding as a missing premise a proposition that re-iterates the 
inferential structure in if-then form. Jacquette offers a pluralistic model which en-
courages experimentation with a number of different candidates, including the re-
iterative premise, under a specified set of circumstances. 

In "Fallacies in Transition: An Assessment of the Pragma-Dialectical Perspec-
tive," Christopher Tindale offers his critical assessment of the pragma-dialectical ap-
proach of van Eemeren and Grootendorst.lnvoking the traditional distinction between 
logic, dialectical and rhetoric, Tindale argues that the pragma- dialectical approach 
relies heavily on rhetorical features that not been fully embraced and acknowledged, 
and that doing so leads to significant problems for that approach. 

In "Distinguishing Practical and Theoretical Knowledge," Matthew Wilks Keefer 
reviews and critiques Deanna Kuhn's theory of informal argument, as presented in her 
1991 book, The Skills of Argument. There Kuhn cited experimental data to show that 
ordinary reasoners are not able to provide adequate responses to attempts at causal 
reasoning. Keefer provides an alternative interpretation of the subjects' reasoning, 
according to which they are not best interpreted as failed theoretical justifications. 

In "Helping Undo the Past: Teaching Critical Thinking in South Africa," Stephen 
de Wijze discusses the problems of teaching critical reasoning in the changing land-
scape of South African society. 

In "Reply to Professor Allen," George Bowles defends his theory of propositional 
relevance (see Informal Logie, XII.2) against three criticisms by Derek Allen (see 
Informal Logic, XV.2). 

There are five book reviews in this number: Reasoning: A Practical Guide (1993) 
by Robert C. Pinto and 1. Anthony Blair, reviewed by Connie Missimer; Collaborative 
Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge (1993) 
by Kenneth Bruffee, reviewed by Bennett A. Rafoth; Philosophy of Science and its 
Discontents (1993) by Steve Fuller, reviewed by Joseph Rouse; Dialectic and its Place 
in the Development of Medieval Logic (1989) by Eleanore Stump, reviewed by Emily 
Michael & Fred S. Michael; and Aristotle's Rhetoric: An Art of Character (1994) by 
Eugene Garver, reviewed by Michel Meyer. 

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In particular, our editorial operation requires that you submit the material 
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