MODR 1710 Lecture Notes - Stephen Toulmin, Antireligion, Tactical Communications
16 Feb 2013
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Department of philosophy , york university, toronto, canada. Recent work in argumentation theory in the social sciences has been heavily influenced by social constuctivist principles. One might have thought that as a result this work in commun- ication theory would have offered the final blow to the view that linear rationality is the end and be all of argumentation. However, with one or two exception (notably willard [1983, 1989]), the social constuctivists have not even fired the opening shot. In other words, the patterns of argument may differ from field to field, but the essential patterns are less than wildly variant. It is still the \system of argument] that guides and \argument-as-structure] that delineates human rationality (pp. Most definitions of argument involve instances that are spoken or written by one person in order to effect some difference in another person (vide, for instance, walton 1990, p. Certainly, such examples form the most obvious instances of argument.
