Abstract
Needed for such dialogue games as dialectic are appropriate standards of fairness and rationality. The rules of procedure of dialectic must describe a game playable by actual human participants. The present paper centers on certain idealizations of the dialectician that are not allowable.
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Woods, J. Ideals of rationality in dialogic. Argumentation 2, 395–408 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00128982
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