Argumentation Meaning
/ˌɑːɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounInference based on reasoning from given propositions.
nounAn exchange of arguments
Sentence Examples
It's not enough for argumentation.
The philosopher presented a clear line of argumentation in his paper.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The professor criticized the student's weak ____ and lack of evidence.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The lawyer's logical ____ convinced the jury of his client's innocence.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Latin argūmentor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin argūmentātiōder. Middle English argumentacioun English argumentation Inherited from Middle English argumentacioun, from Anglo-Norman argumentacion, Middle French argumentation, or their etymon Latin argūmentātiō; by surface analysis, argument + -ation.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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 26, 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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The professor criticized the student's weak ____ and lack of evidence.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The lawyer's logical ____ convinced the jury of his client's innocence.