Refining Hitchcock’s Definition of ‘Argument’

Authors

G. C. Goddu, University of RichmondFollow

Abstract

David Hitchcock, in his recent “Informal Logic and the Concept of Argument” (2007), defends a recursive definition of ‘argument.’ I present and discuss several problems that arise for his definition. I argue that refining Hitchcock’s definition in order to resolve these problems reveals a crucial, but minimally explicated, relation that was, at best, playing an obscured role in the original definition or, at worst, completely absent from the original definition.

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2009

Publisher Statement

Copyright © 2009, Ontario Society for the Study of Argumentation. This article first appeared in Proceedings of the 8th OSSA Conference, Argument Cultures (2009).

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Recommended Citation

Goddu, G. C. "Refining Hitchcock’s Definition of ‘Argument’." Proceedings of the 8th OSSA Conference, Argument Cultures, University of Windsor. June 3, 2009. http://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ossaarchive/OSSA8/papersandcommentaries/55/.