The Logical Evaluation of Arguments

Argumentation 30 (2):167-180 (2016)
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In this paper I will defend the controversial thesis that all argumentation in natural language can be reconstructed, for the purposes of assessment, as a deductively valid argument. Evaluation of the argumentation amounts to evaluation of the logical coherence of the premises. I will be taking the pragma-linguistic theory of Bermejo-Luque as an initial starting point.

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10.1007/s10503-015-9383-1

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