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Policy Theory as Argumentation

Review of Policy Research, 1994
This article presents a method to reconstruct policy theories as argumentations, illustrated by road safety policies in the Netherlands. A policy theory is defined as an actor's integrated set of assumptions with regard to a policy. To date, the literature on policy theories has not applied reconstruction methods so that the assumptions of an actor ...
Igno M. A. M. Pröpper, Derk‐Daan Reneman   +1 more
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An Argument for the Identity Theory

Journal of Philosophy, 1966
Abstract Lewis offers a functionalist argument for the type‐type psychophysical identity theory, according to which, as a matter of fact, mental experiences are type‐identical with certain neuro‐chemical brain states. Lewis summarizes his argument as follows: “The definitive characteristic of any (sort of) experience as such is its ...
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A Theory of Argumentation

, 2015
ions such as "culture" and "society" (Chapter 1). People are multivalent; society is balkanized into discourse domains. The relationship between individuals and social worlds cannot therefore be a simple, universal one.
C. Willard
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A Refined Concept of A Fortiori Arguments for Argumentation Theory

Argumentation
The main goal of the paper is to provide the theoretical model for the a fortiori argument. After a brief history of a fortiori argument (especially in the works of Aristotle, Alexander, Cicero, and Boethius) we propose its general concept, components, and argumentation schemes, its classification, and finally, criteria for assessment.
Igor Martinjak, Jakub Pruś
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A Variety of Contributions to Argumentation Theory

2019
In From argument schemes to argumentative relations in the wild we have brought together a variety of contributions to argumentation theory that we want to bring to the attention of the international community of argumentation scholars and students of argumentation.
van Eemeren, F.H., Garssen, B.
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Arguments for the Davidsonian Theory

2000
In this lecture, I will introduce the (neo)-Davidsonian theory of event arguments, and discuss several of the arguments that Terry Parsons gives in Parsons 1990 in favor of this theory. I will discuss some details of Parsons’ own proposal in the next lecture.
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Preferences in Argumentation Theory

2011
Argumentation theory is a reasoning process based on constructing arguments, determining conflicts between arguments and determining acceptable arguments. Dung’s argumentation framework is an abstract framework based on a set of arguments and a binary defeat relation defined over the set [12].
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Building a Theory of Argumentation

2018
In this chapter it is explained how the pragma-dialectical argumentation theory is built starting from four meta-theoretical principles which determine the methodological starting points of the theorizing. First the required functionalization of argumentation theory is discussed and it is described how this meta-theoretical principle is to be ...
Frans H. van Eemeren, Frans H. van Eemeren   +1 more
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What is the Theory Legal Argumentation For?

International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 2019
The paper aims to present the legal theories of legal argumentation constructed in the last century, organised into two groups: the precursors (Viehweg, Perelman and Toulmin) and the authors of the standard theory (MacCormick and Alexy). Then, some criticisms about all these conceptions are presented.
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Some empirical qualifications to the arguments for an argumentative theory

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2011
AbstractThe empirical research on the psychology of argumentation suggests that people are prone to fallacies and suboptimal performance in generating, comprehending, and evaluating arguments. Reasoning and argumentation are interrelated skills that use many of the same cognitive processes.
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