The Methodological Approach to Argument Evaluation: Rules of Defining as Applied to Assessing Arguments

• Authors: Marcin Koszowy

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The Methodological Approach to Argument Evaluation: Rules of Defining as Applied to Assessing Arguments

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The Methodological Approach to Argument Evaluation: Rules of Defining as Applied to Assessing Arguments

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The main thesis underlying the methodological approach to argument evaluation holds that some arguments which employ knowledge-gaining procedures can be suc-cessfully evaluated by applying tools elaborated by the methodology of science, such as the rules for reasoning, classifying objects, defining, and questioning. The applica-tion of those rules to argument evaluation consists in comparing them with proce-dures employed in the case of argumentative practices performed either in scientific inquiry or in everyday life. In order to show how building the methodological ap-proach to argument evaluation could be started, I examine two cases of evaluating arguments by means of several methodological rules of defining. The idea of apply-ing the rules governing various knowledge-gaining procedures to evaluating argu-ments is present in philosophy of science and in argumentation theory, but so far it has not been systematically elaborated. The paper aims at justifying this idea as a promising research project.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 23-36

Dates

published

2013-03-01

Contributors

author

Marcin Koszowy