A Refined Concept of A Fortiori Arguments for Argumentation Theory

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Igor Martinjak, Jakub Pruś
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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. The main reason for this research is that this type of argument receives little attention in contemporary argumentation theory, and consequently critical thinking students have little knowledge of it, and yet, a fortiori arguments (or “arguments from the stronger”) are prevalent in both, academic and public, discourse. Therefore, the need to incorporate the concept of a fortiori argument into argumentation theory seems even more crucial. Additionally, we develop the diagrammatic method of assessing the inference in such arguments to finally present four critical questions needed for a critical evaluation of a fortiori argument.

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论证理论中强化论证的精炼概念
本文的主要目的是为这一论点提供理论模型。在简要介绍了强化论证的历史(特别是在亚里士多德、亚历山大、西塞罗和波伊提乌的著作中)之后,我们提出了强化论证的一般概念、组成部分、论证方案、分类以及最后的评估标准。进行这项研究的主要原因是,这种类型的论点在当代论证理论中很少受到关注,因此批判性思维的学生对它知之甚少,然而,在学术和公共话语中都普遍存在一种fortiori论点(或“来自强者的论点”)。因此,将论证的概念纳入论证理论似乎更为关键。此外,我们开发了评估这些论证推理的图解方法,最终提出了对一个先验论证进行批判性评估所需的四个关键问题。
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Argumentation
Argumentation Multiple-
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2.20
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28
期刊介绍: Argumentation is an international and interdisciplinary journal. Its aim is to gather academic contributions from a wide range of scholarly backgrounds and approaches to reasoning, natural inference and persuasion: communication, rhetoric (classical and modern), linguistics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, psychology, philosophy, logic (formal and informal), critical thinking, history and law. Its scope includes a diversity of interests, varying from philosophical, theoretical and analytical to empirical and practical topics. Argumentation publishes papers, book reviews, a yearly bibliography, and announcements of conferences and seminars.To be considered for publication in the journal, a paper must satisfy all of these criteria:1.     Report research that is within the journals’ scope: concentrating on argumentation 2.     Pose a clear and relevant research question 3.     Make a contribution to the literature that connects with the state of the art in the field of argumentation theory 4.     Be sound in methodology and analysis 5.     Provide appropriate evidence and argumentation for the conclusions 6.     Be presented in a clear and intelligible fashion in standard English
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