Manipulating Persuasion in Debates: Fact Checking’s Usefulness

Abstract

Persuasion can be considered as a situation where subjects having an opinion or an argument are willing to change it in favor of others' proposal only if the new message has personal relevance and significant consequences on their lives. In this paper, we argue that improvements in the information set and the knowledge of the fundamental rules of a "well-formed formula" are necessary to minimize errors when people make their choices. Arguments can be manipulated either in terms of the truth of premises or in terms of the logical connectives among propositions. The emerging mechanism of the so-called fact-checking, used to verify candidates' statements during the electoral campaign, may be a very useful instrument to realize these improvements in political debates.

Persuasion Capacity of Public Administration in Disasters

“…The subject of persuasion is generally important in social and political relations as an effort by the persuader to condition the views of others. In order to accomplish a social or political action, making people believe through persuasion is essential and the discourses can entail true or false claims (Solferino et al 2015). This allows making the persuaded person to see the act of pursuing the newly proposed objective as a requirement in order to reach the goals.…”