Dictionary of Argumentation 2021

Foreword
By J. Anthony BLAIR

Preface
Translated by J. Anthony BLAIR

Les citations de textes anglais reproduisent la langue et les expressions originales

A

A Comparatione ►Comparison

A CompletudineComprehensiveness

A Conjugata Related Words

A Contrario  Opposites

A Fortiori

A Pari

A Priori, A Posteriori

A Repugnantibus

A Simili

Ab — Arguments (A Contrario…)

Ab —, Ad —, Ex —: Latin Labels

Ab Exemplo

Abduction

Absurd

Accent ► Ambiguity

Accident

Ad — Arguments (Ad hominem…)

Ad AuditoremBeliefs 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 argumentTopos

Bandwagon ► Consensus

Begging the Question Vicious Circle

Beliefs of the Audience

Bias ► Orientation

Burden of Proof

C

Calm

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 ► GradualismSlippery 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 Audience

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

I

Ignorance

Ignorance of Refutation, Ignoratio Elenchi
            ► Relevance

Imitation ►Example

Implication ► InferenceDeduction —                     Connective

Index ► Natural Sign

Indicator

Induction

Inference

Intention of the Legislator

Interaction, Dialogue, Polyphony

Interpretation 1

Interpretation 2, Exegesis, Hermeneutics

« Invention”; Common Place

Irony

J

Justice: Rule of — Justification and Deliberation

K

Kettle Argumentation

L

Laughter and Seriousness

Laws of Discourse ► Scale

Layout of argument

Legal Arguments: Three Collections

Legal Syllogism ► LayoutDefinition —                    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

Number, Arg. from —  Consensus; Authority

O

OBJECT OF DISCOURSE

OBJECTION

Ontological Argument ► A Priori, A Posteriori

Opponent ►Roles

OPPOSITE terms

Argument by the 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

Recciprocity

recipro 2025

 « Red Herring »

 Reflexivity

Reformulation ► Vicious Circle

Refutation   

Related Words

Relation

Relevance  

Repetition

Respect

Resumption of speech — “Straw man”

Retaliation ► Autophagy

Rhetorical Argumentation

Rich and Poor

Right Balance Argument
            ► Moderation and Radicalism

Roles: Proponent Opponent, Third Party

Rules

Rule of justice

S

Scale: Argumentative —; — Laws of Discourse

Schema — Scheme— Schematization

Schematization

Scheme: Argumentation —

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

Superfluity of the Law, Arg. from —

Syllogism

Symmetry ► Relations

Synecdoche ► Metonymy

Systemic argument

Syzygy

T

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!”

U

Unmeaning: Fallacies of confusion  

V

Vague – General – Fuzzy 

Value

Verbiage

Vertigo

Vicious Circle

 

W

Warrant ►Layout of Argument Topos

Waste

Weight of Circumstances

Whole and Parts ► Composition and Division

Words as Arguments

Y

“You too!”