Concept
Argumentation theory
Overview
Argumentation theory is the interdisciplinary study of how conclusions can be supported or undermined by premises through logical reasoning. With historical origins in logic, dialectic and rhetoric, argumentation theory includes the arts and sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation and persuasion. It studies rules of inference, logic and procedural rules in both Artificial intelligence and real-world settings.
Argumentation includes various forms of dialogue such as deliberation and negotiation which are concerned with collaborative decision-making procedures. It also encompasses eristic dialogue, the branch of social debate in which victory over an opponent is the primary goal, and didactic dialogue used for teaching. This discipline also studies the means by which people can express and rationally resolve or at least manage their disagreements.
Argumentation is a daily occurrence, such as in public debate, science, and law. For example in law, in courts by the judge, the parties and the prosecutor, in presenting and testing the validity of evidences. Also, argumentation scholars study the post hoc rationalizations by which organizational actors try to justify decisions they have made irrationally.
Argumentation is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, description, and narration.
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For by this, he means the traditional science which had come down, in scanty and distorted measure to be sure, from antiquity through scholasticism. It is called contentious both because of the logical method used and the end to which it was put. In a certain sense it aimed at power, but power over other men in the interest of some class or sect or person, not power over natural forces in the common interest of all.
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
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But it seems to us that they are misled by the ambiguity of the name. For argumentation signifies two things under one name, because any discussion respecting anything which is either probable or necessary is called argumentation, and so also is the systematic polishing of such a discussion. When then they bring forward any statement of this kind,--"Since she has had a child, she has lain, with a man," they bring…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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So much the wider field, it may appear, lies open to hypothesis; as, where we cannot know with certainty, we are at liberty to make guesses and to form suppositions. Imagination may be allowed, under the strict surveillance of reason, to invent suppositions; but, these must be based on something that is perfectly certain—and that is the possibility of the object. If we are well assured upon this point, it is…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Philosophers who discussed Argumentation theory
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- Immanuel Kant
- Interdisciplinarity
- Idealism
- Stephen Toulmin
- Analytic philosophy
- John Dewey
- Dialogue
- Lawyer
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Linguistic turn
- Language game (philosophy)
- Law
- Richard Rorty
- Evidence
- Richard Whately
- Validity (logic)
- Linguistics
- Psychology
- Plato
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of logic.