Argument Types

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An argument type is a description of the way in which a premise supports a conclusion. In the tradition of the classical disciplines of dialectic and rhetoric, many different lists and classifications of argument types have been made (called topoi or loci). In present-day argumentation theory, they are sometimes expressed as argumentation schemes.

Common argument types

This is a list of types of arguments

• argument from analogy
• argument from authority
• reductio ad absurdum
• argument from beauty
• argument from cause
• argument from celebrity
• argument from consequence
• argument from correlation
• argument from criterion
• argument from definition
• argument from disjunctives
• argument from effect
• argument from evaluation
• argument from equality
• argument from expert opinion
• argument from sign
• argument from similarity
• argument from the many
• pragmatic argument

References

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