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A Computational Model of Pragma-dialectics as a Tool for its Analysis and Evaluation

Informal Logic, 2015
The overall goal of this paper is to show that computational modelling of argumentation theories is a useful tool to deepen them. Specifically, it provides a basic computational formalization of part of Pragma-dialectics’ model of a critical discussion ...
Alejandro Secades
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The Epistemic Inferiority of Pragma-Dialectics – Reply to Botting

Informal Logic, 2012
In a recent paper in this journal, David Botting defended pragma-dialectics against epistemological criticisms by exponents of the epistemological approach to argumentation, i.e. Harvey Siegel, John Biro and me.
Christoph Lumer
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La théorie de l’argumentation comme épistémologie sociale naturalisée

Philosophia Scientiæ, 2018
In this paper, I attempt to characterize the specificity of a social epistemologist viewpoint in argumentation theory by investigating Franz van Eemeren’s pragma-dialectics, the mainstream theory in this domain.
Alban Bouvier
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The Question of Truth

Informal Logic, 2010
The problem with the pragma-dialectical view, it has been argued, is that it takes argumentation as aiming at consensus rather than truth or justified belief. The pragma-dialecticians often imply that an argumentative process aiming at consensus in a way
David Botting
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Karl Popper and Contemporary Argumentation Theory: the Case of Pragma-Dialectics

Revista Filosófica de Coimbra, 2021
Virtually for the first time in the known historiography on the present impact of Karl Popper’s philosophy upon the theory of rhetoric and argumentation, this impact is scrupulously analysed and its most important dimensions are highlighted.
Henrique Jales Ribeiro
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The Role of Quasi-Logical Arguments in Critical Dialogue: A Pragma-Dialectical Redefinition

Informal Logic, 2017
The article focuses on the New Rhetoric’s concept of quasi-logical arguments imitating logical or mathematical demonstrations, and examines it from point of view of pragma-dialectics as a device contributing towards resolving the difference of opinion ...
Iva Svačinová
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Fallacies in Transition: An Assessment of the Pragma-Dialectical Perspective

Informal Logic, 1996
The paper critically investigates the pragma-dialectics of van Eemeren and Grootendorst, particularly the treatment of fallacies. While the pragma-dialectieians claim that dialectics combines the logical and rhetorical approaches to argumentation, it is ...
Christopher W. Tindale
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The Pragma-Dialectics of Dispassionate Discourse: Early Nyāya Argumentation Theory

Religions, 2021
Analytic philosophers have, since the pioneering work of B.K. Matilal, emphasized the contributions of Nyāya philosophers to what contemporary philosophy considers epistemology.
Malcolm Keating
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Conductive Argument as a Mode of Strategic Maneuvering

Informal Logic, 2017
This paper is to argue that conductive arguments could be understood from a rhetorical perspective. It contends that conductive arguments can be regarded as a particular mode of strategic maneuvering, rather than a new type of argument.
Yun Xie
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Pragma-Dialetics Epistemologized: Reply to Lumer

Informal Logic, 2012
I would like to thank Christoph Lumer for his illuminating comments on my paper “The question of truth” published in this journal (Botting 2010) and would like to exercise my right of reply on a few of the issues that he raises.
David Botting
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