Three reasons have been outlined for the importance of argumentation in teaching and learning ethics: (a) Arguments are a way of finding out which views are better than others.
In addition, dialectical argumentation, in which more than one side of an argument is explored, has also been shown to be central in the learning process (Asterhan and Schwarz, 2009).
For example, philosophy is a field that emphasizes argumentation in defense of one's views.
This all makes most economists uncomfortable, not least because most pro-manufacturing argumentation in recent decades has tended toward a thinly-veiled mercantilism.
Video is a particularly transparent medium, and Higgins had always favored a style of argumentation in which he embedded primary-source materials directly in the text, making it easy for others to vet his work.
And yet, the commendable desire to ameliorate the condition of animals, currently treated as though they were meat-generating machines, does not justify strategic argumentation in favor of the indiscriminate consumption of plants.
The last of the strong opinions, "On the afterlife," is a beautiful piece of argumentation in which Señor C probes at the Christian notion of Heaven and Hell, and at the idea that the self continues to exist as itself after death.
Therefore, philosophy, in order to account for mental life, will need to turn aside from isolated experiments in logic and argumentation in favor of rough-edged, life-sized chunks — historical events and figures, works of art, artists themselves, cities, countries, languages, human dramas of all sorts, lived or imagined.
The pragmatic analysis of argumentation in general.
Throughout his career, Derrida elaborates on the basic argumentation in many ways.
On the argumentation in the Saṃtānāntarasiddhi and the subsequent criticism by Ratnakīrti, see Inami (2001).
