SOCY1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Logical Form, Stephen Toulmin
29 May 2017
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Taught around the world and considered one of the most influential philosophers in the latter 20th century. Toulmin had big picture questions about the ways that argumentation was thought about and conducted. Toulmin"s 1958 book, the uses of argument, is where he beings to answer these questions. Logicians mistakenly link the validity of an argument to the form of the argument. For logicians, the content of an argument is irrelevant. Toulmin refers to this as the geometrical concept of validity . But you don"t really learn anything from this! Toulmin does not agree that all validity is formal validity. Validity needs to have grounding in everyday experience. He prefers substantial arguments, the arguments that are worth talking about in real life. The development of the procedural model of single argumentation aimed to: Identify a way to examine validity and argument form in real, substantive arguments. By expressing a claim you take on the responsibility of defending the claim.
