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On Defining ‘Argument’: Comments on Goodman
- 1.0535371 - FLÚ 2021 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
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
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Arguments * The concept of argument * Logic
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Impact factor: 1.089, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Limited access
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.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0313415
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