Spor o definici argumentace
| Title in English | A Controversy over the Definition of Argumentation |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | FILOZOFIA |
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| Citation | |
| web | https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/1209084610.31577filozofia.2025.80.6.9.pdf |
| Doi | https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2025.80.6.9 |
| Keywords | argumentation; definition of argumentation; disagreement |
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| Description | Zouhar (2020) offers a critique of the pragma-dialectical definition of argumentation, drawing on model dialogues between cooperative speakers. I argue that this critique is unfounded. The dialogues in question do not constitute counterexamples, as the pragma-dialectical definition does not require the presence of an opponent, the controversiality of the defended proposition, or even the preexistence of a clash of opinions. I further compare the aims and values embedded in the pragma-dialectical definition with those articulated in Zouhar’s general definition of argumentation. I contend that the difference between the two is merely a matter of formulation and that both definitions capture an identical underlying concept of argumentation in the same redundant fashion. |
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