Criticism without Fundamental Principles

Criticism without Fundamental Principles

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In this paper I develop and defend a form of argumentative normativity that is not based on fundamental principles. I first argue that research agendas that aim to discover (or claimed to have discovered) fundamental principles of ‘good’ argumentative discourse share one crucial weak spot, viz. circ...

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Main Author: Eugen Octav Popa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2016-07-01
Series:Informal Logic
Subjects:
argumentation theory
criticism
idealizations
normativity
pragma-dialectics
Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4641
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spelling doaj-d69e12fe73df46f1ad8f440af5960de52021-06-14T17:00:24ZengUniversity of WindsorInformal Logic0824-25772293-734X2016-07-01362Criticism without Fundamental PrinciplesEugen Octav Popa0University of AmsterdamIn this paper I develop and defend a form of argumentative normativity that is not based on fundamental principles. I first argue that research agendas that aim to discover (or claimed to have discovered) fundamental principles of ‘good’ argumentative discourse share one crucial weak spot, viz. circularity. I then argue that this weak spot can be avoided in a pancritical (Bartley, 1984) view of normativity.https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4641argumentation theorycriticismidealizationsnormativitypragma-dialectics
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Criticism without Fundamental Principles
Informal Logic
argumentation theory
criticism
idealizations
normativity
pragma-dialectics
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author_sort Eugen Octav Popa
title Criticism without Fundamental Principles
title_short Criticism without Fundamental Principles
title_full Criticism without Fundamental Principles
title_fullStr Criticism without Fundamental Principles
title_full_unstemmed Criticism without Fundamental Principles
title_sort criticism without fundamental principles
publisher University of Windsor
series Informal Logic
issn 0824-2577
2293-734X
publishDate 2016-07-01
description In this paper I develop and defend a form of argumentative normativity that is not based on fundamental principles. I first argue that research agendas that aim to discover (or claimed to have discovered) fundamental principles of ‘good’ argumentative discourse share one crucial weak spot, viz. circularity. I then argue that this weak spot can be avoided in a pancritical (Bartley, 1984) view of normativity.
topic argumentation theory
criticism
idealizations
normativity
pragma-dialectics
url https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/4641
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