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The present paper elaborates a deductivist account of natural language argu-ment in the context of pragma-dialectics. It reviews earlier debates, criticizes some standard misconceptions in the literature, and argues that the identification and analysis of deductive argument schemes can be the basis of a compelling theory of argumentative discourse.
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Groarke, L. Deductivism Within Pragma-Dialectics. Argumentation 13, 1–16 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007771101651
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