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Argumentation:
A way of expressing, reasoning, trying to convince others to agree with you, trying to come to arrive at the best conclusions
2 senses of making an argument:
1. Sense of making an argument 2. sense of having an argument.
Explanations:
Communications presented to clarify ideas and improve understanding rather than support a claim.
Opinions:
Messages that present an individual's personal beliefs on a subject.
Formal logic:
Traditional study of logic, or study of the logical form that arguments should take, including how premises should lead to conclusions, assuming premises are correct.
Informal logic:
Study of reasoning from evidence to conclusions, focusing on elements of reasoning other than the form of the arguments.
Reasoning:
1. Something you do as you go through process of drawing a conclusion. 2. Something you use, in the sense that when you make an argument, you use reasoning to support the claim.
Rhetoric:
Study of the available means of persuasion
Logos:
Uses reasoning to influence others, (like logic)
Ethos:
Personal character of the individual making argument, credibility.
pathos:
Use of emotions to convince the audience.
purpose for argumentation:
reaching the best decisions we can
St. Augustine: people should learn rhetoric because
1. aids in the search for truth. 2. allows the good to have a voice.