The latter include, to take only a few examples, competing definitions of "argument"; argument identification; burden of proof; the empirical study of argument; diagramming; cognitive bias; the history of argument analysis; methods of argumentative investigation; the role of emotion in argument; and the implicit rules that characterize argumentative exchange in different social contexts.
He is famous for his formulation of the five tropes, or grounds for the suspension of judgment, that summarize the method of argument of Greek skeptics generally.
But it is striking how much of Flew's method of argument, too, has changed from that in his earlier works, and how similar it now is to the abysmal intellectual standards displayed in Varghese's appendix.
The Wisdom of Solomon, dating from the 1st century bce, shows an acquaintance with the Platonic doctrine of the preexistence of the soul and with a method of argument known as sorites, which was favoured by the Stoics (see Stoicism).
The "elenchus" refers to the Socratic method of argument.
The Academy's method of argument was dialectical.
Dialectic is then simply "a method of argument from [the] common beliefs [held by these people]".
The three fa method of argument is one application of this general type of argument by example or analogy.
The Academy's method of argument was, in the first instance, dialectical, like that of Socrates in Plato's Socratic dialogues.
And, thirdly, we know that the Academic method of argument was dialectical: Carneades made it his practice to argue for and against any and all philosophical views.
