DICTIONARY OF ARGUMENTATION
Foreword – J. Anthony BLAIR
Preface – Christian PLANTIN – Translated by J. Anthony BLAIR
DeepL English – Edited and Proofread.
Quotations from English texts follow the language of the English edition.
Errors are mine.
A
A Comparatione ►Comparison
A Completudine ► Comprehensiveness
A Conjugata ► Related Words
A Contrario ► Opposites
A Fortiori
A Pari
A Priori, A Posteriori
A Repugnantibus
A Simili
A/ab – Arguments, e.g. A Contrario arg.
Ab —, Ad —, Ex —: Latin Labels
Ab Exemplo
Abduction
Absurd
Accent ► Ambiguity
Accident
Ad – Arguments, e.g. Ad hominem arg.
Ad Auditorem ►Beliefs of the Audience
Ad Baculum ► Threat — Promise
Ad Consequentiam
Ad Hominem
Ad Incommodum
Ad Judicium
Ad lapidem ► Dismissal
Ad litteram ► Letter
Ad orationem ►Matter; Strict meaning
Ad personam ► Personal Attack
Ad Populum
Ad Quietem ► Calm
Ad Rem
Ad Verecundiam ► Modesty
Affirming the Consequent ► Deduction
“After as Before” ► Consistency
Agreement
Alignment ► Orientation
Ambiguity
Amphiboly ► Ambiguity
Analogical Thinking
Analogy 1: Intra-Categorical Analogy
Analogy 2: Structural Analogy
Antanaclasis — Antimetabole — Antiparastasis ► Orientation Reversal
Antithesis
Apagogic
Aporia ► Assent; Stasis
To Argue, Argument, …: The Words
Argument — Conclusion
Argumentation 1: Definitions
Argumentation 2: Key Features and Issues
Argumentation Studies: Contemporary Developments
Argumentativity ► Argumentation (2)
Assent
Association ► Dissociation
Audience ► Rhetorical Argumentation — Persuasion
Authority
Autophagy, Retaliation
B
Backing ► Layout of argument — Topos
Bandwagon ► Consensus
Begging the Question ► Vicious Circle
Beliefs of the Audience
Bias ► Orientation
Burden of Proof
C
Appeal to CALM, or AD QUIETEM Argument
Case-by-Case Argument
Categorization and Nomination
Causality
Causal argumentation
Cause-to-Effect argumentation
Circumstances
Classification
Collections 1 and Typologies of Arguments Schemes
Collections 2: From Aristotle to Boethius
Collections 3: Modernity and Tradition
Collections 4: Contemporary Structurations
Common Sense ► « Invention”; Common Place
Common Place ► « Invention”; Common Place
Comparison
Comprehensivess
Composition and Division
Concession
Conclusion ► Argument — Conclusion
Conditions of Discussion
Conductive Argument
Connective, Logical —
Consensus
Consequence ►Effect-to-Cause argument
Consistency
Contradiction
Contrary and Contradictory
Convergent Argumentation
Convergent — Linked — Serial Argumentation
Conversion
Cooperative Principle
Coordinate Argumentation ► Linked argumentation
Correlative terms
Counter-Accusation
Counter-Argumentation
Counter-Discourse ► Counter-Argumentation
Counter-Proposition ► Counter-Argumentation
Criticism — Rationalities — Rationalizations
D
Debate
Deduction
Default Reasoning
Definition (1): Definition and Argument
Definition (2): Arg. Justifying a definition
Definition (3): Arg. based on a definition
Definition (4): Persuasive Definition
Demonstration and Argumentation
Denying
Denying the Antecedent ► Deduction
Derived Words
Destruction of Speech
Dialectic
Diallel ► Vicious Circle
Dilemma
Direction ► Gradualism — Slippery Slope
Disagreement
Dismissal
Dissensus
Dissociation
Distinguo
Division ► Case-by-Case; Composition
Doubt
Doxa
E
Ecthesis ► Example
Effect to Cause, Arg. from —
Emotion
Enantiosis ► Disagreement
Enthymeme
Epicheirema
Epitrope
Establishing / Exploiting a Relationship
Ethos
Etymology ►True Meaning of the Word
Evaluation and Evaluators
Evidentiality
Ex — Arguments (Ex Concesso…)
Ex Concessis ►Beliefs of the Audienc
Ex Datis ►Beliefs of the Audience
Exageration and Euphemization
Example
Exemplum
Explanation
Expression
F
Facts ► Proof by fact – Persuasion against fact
Faith — Superstition, Arg. from —
Fallacies 1: Contemporary Approaches
Fallacies 2: Aristotle’s Foundational List
Fallacies 3: From Logic and Dialectic to Science
Fallacies 4: A Moral and Anthropological Perspective
Fallacies as Sins of the Tongue
False Cause ► Cause-Effect
Figure
Follow-the-Leader ► Ad Populum — Consensus
Force ► Strength
Forum
G
Generality of the Law
Genetic Argument ► Fallacy (I) – Intention of the Legislator;
Genus
Gradualism and Direction
H
Hasty Generalization ► Induction
Historic Argument (in Law) ► Intention of the Legislator
Homonymy
I
Ignorance
Ignorance of Refutation, Ignoratio Elenchi ► Relevance
Imitation ►Example
Implication ► Inference — Deduction — Connective
Index ► Natural Sign
Indicator
Induction
Inference
Intention of the Legislator
Interaction, Dialogue, Polyphony
Interpretation as Argument
« Invention”; Common Place
Irony
J
Justice: Rule of —
Justification and Deliberation
K
L
Laughter and Seriousness
Laws of Discourse ► Scale
Layout of argument
Legal Arguments: Three Collections
Legal Syllogism ► Layout — Definition — Categorization
Letter: Arg. appealing to the —
Likely ► Probable, Plausible, True
Linked Argumentation
Logic: Branch of Mathematics, Art of Thinking
Logical square ► Proposition
Logics for Dialogues
Logos – Ethos – Pathos
M
Manipulation
Many Questions
Map, Arg.— ► Script
Matter
Metaphor, Analogy, Model
Metonymy, Synecdoche
Moderation and Radicalism
Modesty
Motives and Reasons
Multiple Argumentation ► Convergent argumentation
N
Natural Signs
Nature, Appeal to -; Naturalistic Fallacy ► Weight of Circumstances
Negation ► Denying
Non-Contradiction Principle
Norm
Novelty, Appeal to — ► Progress
O
OBJECT OF DISCOURSE
OBJECTION
Ontological Argument ► A Priori, A Posteriori
Opponent ►Roles
OPPOSITE terms
Argument from OPPOSITES
Orator ►Rhetorical argumentation
Argumentative ORIENTATION
ORIENTATION reversal
ORIENTING words
ORNAMENTAL fallacy
P
Paradiastole ► Orientation Reversal
Paradoxes of Argumentation
Paralogism
Pathetic Argument
Pathos 1: Rhetorical Proof
Pathos 2: From Proof to Fallacy
Personal Attack
Persuading, Convincing
Persuasion
Petitio Principii ► Vicious Circle
Plausible ► Probable, Plausible, True
Politeness
Political Arguments: Two Collections
Polysyllogism ► Sorite; Serial
Pragmatic Argument
Precedent
Presence ► Object of discourse
Presupposition
Priming and Stages ► Gradualism and Direction
Probable, Plausible, True
Progress
Prolepsis
Proof and the Arts of Proof
Proof by facts – Persuasion against facts
Proper Name
Proponent ► Roles
Proportion and Proportionality
Proposition
Pseudo-Simplicity ► Fallacies (I)
Psychological Argument (in Law) ► Intention of the Legislator
Q
Quasi-Logical Arguments
Question
Question: Argumentative Question
R
Rationality ► Criticism – Rationalities – Rationalization
Reciprocity
« Red Herring »
Redundancy of the Law, Arg. from –
Reflexivity
Reformulation ► Vicious Circle
Refutation
Related Words
Relation
Relevance
Repetition
Respect
Resumption of speech — “Straw man”
Retaliation ► Autophagy
Rhetorical Argumentation
Rhetoric and Interpretation: Complementarity
Rich and Poor
Right Balance Argument ► Moderation and Radicalism
Roles: Proponent Opponent, Third Party
S
Scale: Argumentative —; — Laws of Discourse
Schematization
Scheme – Schematization
Scheme of Argument – Topos
Script
Self-Argued Claim
Self-Evidence
Serial Argumentation
Signs ► Natural Signs
Silence
Slippery Slope
Sophism, Sophist
Sorite
Stasis
Strategy
“Straw Man” ► Resumption of speech
Strength
Strict Meaning
Structures of Argumentation
Subject Matter of the Law
Subordinate Argumentation ► Serial Argumentation
Syllogism
Symmetry ► Relations – Reciprocity
Synecdoche ► Metonymy
Systemic argument
Syzygy
T – U
Tagging the argumentative sequence
“Technical” vs “Non-Technical” Evidence
Testimony
Third Party ► Roles
Threat — Promise
Title of the law, Arg. from the—
Topos in Semantic
Topos — Topic — Commonplace
True Meaning of the Word
Truth ► Probable, Likely, True
Two-Term Reasoning
Two wrongs don’t make a right” ► “You too!”
V
Vague – General – Fuzzy
Value in the New Rhetoric
Verbiage
Vertigo
Vicious Circle
W
Warrant ►Layout of Argument — Topos
Waste
Weight of Circumstances
Whole and Parts ► Composition and Division
Words as Arguments