On Defining ‘Argument’: Comments on Goodman

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Svoboda, Vladimír
On Defining ‘Argument’: Comments on Goodman.
Argumentation: an international journal on reasoning. Roč. 34, č. 4 (2020), s. 537-542. ISSN 0920-427X. E-ISSN 1572-8374
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: Arguments * The concept of argument * Logic
Obor OECD: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Impakt faktor: 1.089, rok: 2020
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-019-09505-y

The paper is a critical reaction to a research paper that appeared in Argumentation. It suggests that Goodman’s delineation of the concept of argument for purposes of disciplines like logic is unsatisfactory in several respects. Identifying arguments as (unstructured) sets of propositions is highly problematic. Moreover, Goodman’s delineation is excessively vague and it may commit us to the claim that sequences of sentences which are commonly treated as expressing arguments do not, in fact, represent arguments.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0313415