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Argument Structure:

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 18)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0357-5

ISBN: 978-94-007-0356-8

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Feb 9, 2011

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Chapter 1An Approach to Argument Macrostructure

Freeman, James B.

Pages: 1 –38

[Argument macrostructure concerns the overall support structure of statements as wholes in arguments. We may distinguish the standard approach through circles and arrows due to Beardsley and Thomas from Toulmin’s layout of arguments. Although Thomas has shown how the standard approach may...
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Chapter 2The Dialectical Nature of Argument

Freeman, James B.

Pages: 39 –58

[In a dialogical situation, a plurality of participants propound, defend, attack, and modify their views. In a dialectical situation, the participants in addition are committed to the critical testing of their viewpoints. In a basic dialectical situation, exactly one participant propounds a...
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Chapter 3Toulmin’s Problematic Notion of Warrant

Freeman, James B.

Pages: 59 –88

[We argue that it is wrong to try to identify a statement in an argument text as expressing a warrant. Indeed, it is wrong to apply the data/warrant/backing distinction to argument texts. Although Toulmin might arguably agree about some warrants, in presenting a “layout of arguments” he has been...
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Chapter 4The Linked-Convergent Distinction—A First Approximation

Freeman, James B.

Pages: 89 –105

[We need to distinguish linked versus convergent structure because judgments of acceptability and relevance are affected by which premises link together to form reasons for the conclusion. Many characterizations of the distinction however are vague or ambiguous, making discernment of structure...
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Chapter 5Argument Structure and Disciplinary Perspective: The Linked-Convergent Versus Multiple-Co-ordinatively Compound Distinctions

Freeman, James B.

Pages: 107 –128

[The pragma-dialectical multiple-co-ordinatively compound distinction is not the same as the linked-convergent distinction. Multiple argumentation consists of a series of independent arguments each intended to be sufficient to justify accepting or rejecting some viewpoint. In co-ordinatively...
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Chapter 6The Linked-Convergent Distinction–Refining the Criterion

Freeman, James B.

Pages: 129 –171

[Recognizing the probative relevance of one statement to another is a matter of having a Peircean belief-habit conveying one from the former to the latter. These habits may be formulated as inference rules. We may thus understand relevance as a ternary relation holding between statements P and Q...
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Chapter 7Argument Structure and Enthymemes

Freeman, James B.

Pages: 173 –195

[Since we regard material warrants not as suppressed premises but as inference rules, we disagree in many cases with the standard approach to reconstructing enthymemes by supplying alleged non-explicit premises. Why is our approach preferable? We appeal first to Hitchcock’s phenomenological...
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Chapter 8From Analysis to Evaluation

Freeman, James B.

Pages: 197 –204

[We address some questions concerning argument structure motivated by evaluative considerations. First, what is the relation between the warrants licencing moves from the individual reasons of a convergent argument to the warrant licencing the move from all the stated reasons to the conclusion?...

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