argumentation

plural argumentations

1. uncountableusuallyInference based on reasoning from given propositions.

   His chain of argumentation is flawed.

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   None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses characteristic of CAW's suggestions: what CAW has to offer are mere guesses, arrived at in a totally unsystematic way and totally unsupported by rational and reasonable argumentation.

   1989 January 28, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 131

2. uncountableusuallyAn exchange of arguments

   Their argumentation continued long into the night.

3. uncountableusuallyThe addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.

   An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.

   2009, Iyad Rahwan, Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 24