Argument Models and Techniques

Arguments

Models of argument

Argument as War

Argument as proof

Argument as performance

- Uses a war analogy as a way to view a debate.

- Results in a winner and a loser.

- Both sides use arguments as "weapons".

- They are based upon the audience which they are presented.

- They try to convince the audience to adopt a certain perspective.

- It questions each argument to determine its validity.

- Does it work? Is it any good? Are the premises warranted? are the inferences valid? Does the conclusion follow from the premises?

Adressing the audience

Commonlines

Argumentative strategies

Making it interesting

Fallacies

Models of argument

- Uses a war analogy as a way to view a debate.

- Results in a winner and a loser.

- Both sides use arguments as "weapons".

- Focuses on the audience.

- The argument should be a refreshing change from the audiences "routinary" preconceptions.

- Argument should have a follow-through that adresses the questions: So what? Who cares? Is it relevant?

Single phenomenon

Indices of the interesting

Multiple phenomena

- Organization

- Composition

- Abstraction

- Generalization

- Stabilization

- Function

- Evaluation

- Co-relation

- Co-existence

- Co-variation

- Opposition

- Causation