Discovering Warrants in Political Argumentation
Philosophers deny a proposal for actions can be deduced from arguments for or against the proposal because they may be incompatible. Nevertheless, people in general, and politicians especially, make decisions and present arguments they believe are convincing. We studied politicians who made decision...
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| description | Philosophers deny a proposal for actions can be deduced from arguments for or against the proposal because they may be incompatible. Nevertheless, people in general, and politicians especially, make decisions and present arguments they believe are convincing. We studied politicians who made decisions in complex situations. They spoke about possible actions, their consequences, the probabilities of these consequences and their evaluations, but rarely indicated why their arguments led to their choice. We hypothesized implicit argumentation rules involved and checked whether they predicted those choices. We found seven implicit informal logic rules involved. We also found a random sample of people made the same choices based on the same arguments, suggesting basic warrants by which people argue about decisions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0a83c6eba23f4f41911c9b4188f89a402022-12-21T21:03:15ZengUniversity of WindsorInformal Logic0824-25772293-734X2021-12-01414Discovering Warrants in Political ArgumentationIrmtraud Gallhofer0Willem Saris1sociometric research foundationsociometric research foundationPhilosophers deny a proposal for actions can be deduced from arguments for or against the proposal because they may be incompatible. Nevertheless, people in general, and politicians especially, make decisions and present arguments they believe are convincing. We studied politicians who made decisions in complex situations. They spoke about possible actions, their consequences, the probabilities of these consequences and their evaluations, but rarely indicated why their arguments led to their choice. We hypothesized implicit argumentation rules involved and checked whether they predicted those choices. We found seven implicit informal logic rules involved. We also found a random sample of people made the same choices based on the same arguments, suggesting basic warrants by which people argue about decisions.https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/6765argumentation rulesdatawarrants and claimsstrategiesoutcomesutilities and probabilities |
| spellingShingle | Irmtraud Gallhofer Willem Saris Discovering Warrants in Political Argumentation Informal Logic argumentation rules data warrants and claims strategies outcomes utilities and probabilities |
| title | Discovering Warrants in Political Argumentation |
| title_full | Discovering Warrants in Political Argumentation |
| title_fullStr | Discovering Warrants in Political Argumentation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Discovering Warrants in Political Argumentation |
| title_short | Discovering Warrants in Political Argumentation |
| title_sort | discovering warrants in political argumentation |
| topic | argumentation rules data warrants and claims strategies outcomes utilities and probabilities |
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