On the seven ways to counter an argument

  • Hubert Marraud Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32870/qr.v2i4.40
Keywords: counterargument, dialectics, objection, rebuttal, refutation.

Abstract

Reception: April 4, 2017         Accepted: June 12, 2017               My aim here is to give an adequate definition of counterargument, establishing a suitable typology of counterarguments grounded on Toulmin’s model. This typology is based on a double criteria: the attacked element (premises, claim or warrant), and the force or strength of the attack as expressed by the appropriate argumentative connector. The result is a more systematic classification of counterarguments, based on linguistic evidences.

Author Biography

Hubert Marraud, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Es profesor titular de lógica y filosofía de la ciencia en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Es autor de diversos artículos de teoría de los argumentos y de los libros Methodus Argumentandi (2007) y ¿Es lógic@? Análisis y evaluación de argumentos (2013, 2015), y coeditor junto con Paula Olmos de De la demostración a la argumentación (2015).

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Published
2017-07-01
Issue
No 4 (2017): APPROACHES: RHETORIC, LOGIC AND THEORY OF ARGUMENTATION
Section
Articles

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