Mapping the Structure of Debate
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22329/il.v24i1.2130Keywords:
debate, argumentation analysis, argument diagrams, argument visualization, dialectics, discourse analysisAbstract
Although debate is a richly structured and prevalent form of discourse, it has received little scholarly attention. Logicians have focused on the structure of individual arguments-how they divide into premises and conclusions, which in turn divide into various constituents. In contrast, I focus on the structure of sets of arguments, showing how arguments are themselves constituents in high-level dialectical structures. I represent debates and positions by graphs whose vertices correspond to arguments and whose edges correspond to two inter-argument relations: "dispute" and "support," respectively. On this basis I develop a theory of the structure of debate.Downloads
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2004-01-01
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