Argumentation schemes

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Argumentation schemes

Douglas Walton, Chris Reed, Fabrizio Macagno

Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-429) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides a systematic analysis of many common argumentation schemes and a compendium of 96 schemes. The study of these schemes, or forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, is at the core of argumentation research. Surveying all aspects of argumentation schemes from the ground up, the book takes the reader from the elementary exposition in the first chapter to the latest state of the art in the research efforts to formalize and classify the schemes, outlined in the last chapter. It provides a systematic and comprehensive account, with notation suitable for computational applications that increasingly make use of argumentation schemes.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Basic tools in the state of the art
  • 2. Schemes for argument from analogy, classification and precedent
  • 3. Knowledge-related, practical and other schemes
  • 4. Arguments from generally accepted opinions, commitment and character
  • 5. Causal argumentation schemes
  • 6. Schemes and enthymemes
  • 7. Attack, rebuttal and refutation
  • 8. The history of schemes
  • 9. A user's compendium of schemes
  • 10. Refining the classification of schemes
  • 11. Formalizing schemes
  • 12. Schemes in computer systems.

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Details

  • NCID
    BC02985331
  • ISBN
    • 9780521897907
  • LCCN
    2007045337
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 443 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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