Sentence examples for form of argumentation from inspiring English sources

The traditional form of argumentation, the courtroom or debating society, was thought too confrontational, yet other attributes of argumentative inquiry were thought to be attractive.

Indeed, Chomsky is a master at this form of argumentation, and he does it beautifully in Hegemony or Survival when he contrasts the democratic statements of Bush regime officials against their anti-democratic actions.

An extended form of argumentation framework in which values and aspirations can be represented is used to allow divergent opinions for different audiences, and complexity results relating to the extended framework are presented.

In Pragma-Dialectics, individuals are studied while verbally interacting with each other in a critical discussion, in particular how they cooperate with one another, following Grice's cooperation principle, which resurfaces in this form of argumentation theory as the 'communication principle' (van Eemeren and Grootendorst 2004).

Plato, however, attempts to convince us that the dialectical elenchus "were a form of argumentation that Socrates began to practice spontaneously as soon as he learned of the Oracle" (433); thus, Plato confers to it a divine origin; in the Charmides he does the same when he makes Socrates say that he learned an incantation (a metaphor for the elenchus) from Zalmoxis; see also the Philebus 16c.

The underlying logic is that in order to debate anything it is necessary to develop a common understanding of what is considered relevant and which form of argumentation is deemed legitimate before arguing over factual as well as normative positions.

In the former "all things are demonstrated" while in the latter less rigorous forms of argumentation are utilized (e.g., supporting a proposition by means of an analogical argument).

In Books II and III Valla discusses propositions and forms of argumentation such as the syllogism.

The text is replete with analogies, metaphors, and other forms of argumentation that fall well short of rigorous demonstrations.

Such an examination of how words and arguments function will easily lay bare the artificial and sophistical nature of these forms of argumentation.

Aristotle's investigations into logic and the forms of argumentation make up part of the group of works coming down to us from the Middle Ages under the heading the Organon (organon = tool in Greek).