The three bases for the enthymeme: A dialogical theory

DOI10.1016/J.JAL.2007.06.002MaRDI QIDQ946575zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walton, Douglas

Publication date 23 September 2008

Published in Journal of Applied Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2007.06.002

zbMATH Keywords

argument visualisationargumentation schemescommon knowledgeformal dialogue systemsframesimplicit commitments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Review text

An enthymeme is an argument with at least one statement (premises, lemma, or conclusion) left implicit. The identification of what is implicit remains a problem. In this paper, recent developments in argumentation technology -- argumentation schemes, argument visualisation tools, formal dialogue systems in the sense of Hamblin -- are drawn upon to develop a theory of enthymemes, employing three bases: (1) the commitment stores of the participants (the appeal to implicit commitments is contrary to the tradition of Hamblin); (2) (possibly presumptive) argument schemes; (3) a context-relative set of common knowledge propositions. The theory is illustrated by applying it to three examples.

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