argumentation
nounUK /ˌɑːɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/ · US /ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English argumentacioun, from Anglo-Norman argumentacion, Middle French argumentation, or their etymon Latin argūmentātiō; by surface analysis, argument + -ation.
1
Usually Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
- His chain of argumentation is flawed.
- 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 23, 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
Usually An exchange of arguments
- Their argumentation continued long into the night.
3
Usually The 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:
- Derived terms
- argumentational, argumentationally, counterargumentation