Fundamentals of Critical Argumentation presents the basic tools for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of common arguments for beginners. The book teaches by using examples of arguments in dialogues, both in the text itself and in the exercises. Examples of controversial legal, political, [...]
This text identifies 25 argumentation schemes for presumptive reasoning and marches a set of critical questions to each. These two elements are then used to evaluate a given argument in a particular case in relation to a context of dialogue in which the argument occurred.[...]