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

Shiyang Yu, Frank Zenker

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)32-69
Number of pages38
JournalInformal Logic
Volume39
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Philosophy

Free keywords

  • Claim-to-validity
  • Conductive argument
  • Degrees of importance
  • Dialectical view
  • Pro and con reasons
  • Product view
  • Value hierarchy

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