The assessment of argumentation based on abduction

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Authors
Publication date 2014
Host editors
  • D. Mohammed
  • M. Lewiński
Book title Virtues of argumentation: proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation (OSSA), 22-26 May 2013
Event 10th OSSA Conference: Virtues of argumentation
Publisher Windsor, ON: OSSA
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)
Abstract Abduction is a widely used but deductively invalid type of reasoning. In this paper I will develop a tool for the assessment of argumentation based on abduction that can be used to analyse and evaluate the type of argumentation as it occurs in institutionalized contexts like science and medical diagnosis. I will summarize the most important definitions of abduction and propose an argumentative pattern on the basis of a critical examination of two extant dialectical accounts of the argument scheme involved.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA10/papersandcommentaries/167/
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