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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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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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La normativité naturelle : une théorie de l’argumentation comme discipline engagée

Argumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2009
Natural normativity describes the means whereby social and cultural controls are placed on argumentative behaviour. The three main components of this are Goals, Context, and Ethos, which combine to form a dynamic and situational framework.
Michael A. Gilbert
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A Reaction to Critique from the Epistemological Sidelines

Informal Logic
In this paper, a reaction is presented to Siegel’s claim that the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation ignores or neglects epistemological viewpoints that he finds vital to any normative theory of argumentation.
Bart Garssen
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Natural Normativity: Argumentation Theory as an Engaged Discipline

Informal Logic, 2008
Natural normativity describes the means whereby social and cultural controls are placed on argumentative behaviour. The three main components of this are Goals, Context, and Ethos, which combine to form a dynamic and situational framework.
Michael A. Gilbert
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Being Reasonable

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2015
Where do the rules of critical discussion get their normative force? What kinds of norms are involved? Unreasonable behaviour in the critical discussion - e.g., continuing to assert the contradictory of a proven standpoint, performing some action ...
Botting David
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Popper’s Critical Rationalism and the Rationale for Pragma-Dialectics [PDF]

, 2014
Conference Papers and Commentary.My focus will be on the rationale van Eemeren and Grootendorst offer for their theory of Pragma-Dialectics. I will discuss their claims regarding deductivism, the omni-competence of Pragma-Dialectics (values, for example),
Hayes, Calvin
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