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Argumentation in Suboptimal Settings 次优环境下的论证

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-03-28 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-022-09571-9

Diego Castro

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引用次数: 3

Demanding a halt to metadiscussions 要求停止元讨论

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-03-25 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-022-09569-3

Beth Innocenti

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引用次数: 3

Secundum Quid and the Pragmatics of Arguments. The Challenges of the Dialectical Tradition 世俗测验与辩论的实用主义。辩证法传统的挑战

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-03-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-022-09568-4

Fabrizio Macagno

引用次数: 3

Internal Deliberation Defending Climate-Harmful Behavior 内部商议保护气候有害行为

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-02-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09562-2

Maria Wolrath Söderberg, Nina Wormbs

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引用次数: 4

Charles Arthur Willard (1945–2021): In Memoriam 查尔斯·亚瑟·威拉德（1945–2021）：纪念

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-02-02 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-022-09567-5

Barbara J. O’Keefe, Daniel J. O’Keefe

引用次数: 0

Why We Need Skepticism in Argument: Skeptical Engagement as a Requirement for Epistemic Justice 为什么我们在辩论中需要怀疑论：怀疑论参与是认识正义的要求

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-01-11 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09565-z

Lucy Alsip Vollbrecht

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引用次数: 0

Bothsiderism Bothsiderism。

IF 1.2 2区文学

Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-01-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09563-1

Scott F. Aikin, John P. Casey

引用次数: 5

Arguments and Reason-Giving 争论与理性陈述

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-01-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09561-3

Matthew W. McKeon

引用次数: 1

From Theory of Rhetoric to the Practice of Language Use: The Case of Appeals to Ethos Elements 从修辞理论到语言使用实践——以民族元素诉求为例

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Argumentation Pub Date : 2022-01-03 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09564-0

Marcin Koszowy, Katarzyna Budzynska, Martín Pereira-Fariña, Rory Duthie

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引用次数: 6

The Cultural Embeddedness of Arguments Raised as a Part of the Bulgarian Debate About the Ratification of the Istanbul Convention 保加利亚关于批准《伊斯坦布尔公约》的辩论中提出的论点的文化嵌入性

IF 1.2 2区文学

Argumentation Pub Date : 2021-11-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10503-021-09560-4

Hristo Valchev

引用次数: 1