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A dialectical view on conduction : Reasons, warrants, and normal suasory inclinations

Yu, Shiyang and Zenker, Frank LU orcid (2019) In Informal Logic 39(1). p.32-69
Abstract

Carl Wellman (1971) introduced the reasoning-type conduction while en-dorsing a dialectical view on natural lan-guage argumentation. Contemporary schol-arship, by contrast, treats conductive argu-ment predominantly on a product view. Not only did Wellman's reasons for a dialectical view thereby fall into disregard; a product-treatment of conduction also flouts the standard semantics of 'argument'. This pa-per traces why Wellman held a dialectical view regarding the role of defeasible war-rants. These act as stand-ins for (parts of) value hierarchies that arguers of normal suasory inclination find acceptable. We also improve on how to diagram conduction and distinguish two of its structural variants.

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Claim-to-validity, Conductive argument, Degrees of importance, Dialectical view, Pro and con reasons, Product view, Value hierarchy
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Informal Logic
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39
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1
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38 pages
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Informal Logic, University of Windsor, ON, Canada
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0824-2577
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10.22329/il.v39i1.5080
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English
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