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Goodnight's “Speculative Inquiry” in Its Intellectual Context

Goodnight's “Speculative Inquiry” in Its Intellectual Context ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 48 (Spring 2012): 211-215 GOODNIGHT'S "SPECULATIVE INQUIRY'' IN ITS INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT David Zarefsky At the time G. Thomas Goodnight published his essay on spheres of argument, which he called "a speculative inquiry into the art of public deliberation," the "hot topic" within argumentation studies was argument fields ("Speculative" 214). Scholars had picked up on a term first used by Stephen Toulmin in The Uses of Argument. There Toulmin maintained that two arguments were in the same field if their data and conclusions were of the same "logical type" (Uses 14). (In this formulation, "logical type" was left undefined.) This was an effort to find a standard for evaluating arguments that recognized a middle ground between whimsy and caprice, on one hand, and formal deduction on the other. Toulmin was engaged in the same general project as Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca: revitalizing the concept of the reasonable. He was implying that arguments should not be evaluated purely on their effectiveness, nor should they be dependent on formal requirements. Instead, they should be judged in the context of other arguments with the same types of data and inference. By the late 1960s, however, Toulmin had moved away http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Argumentation and Advocacy Taylor & Francis

Goodnight's “Speculative Inquiry” in Its Intellectual Context

Zarefsky, David
Argumentation and Advocacy , Volume 48 (4): 5 – Mar 1, 2012
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Goodnight's “Speculative Inquiry” in Its Intellectual Context

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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 48 (Spring 2012): 211-215 GOODNIGHT'S "SPECULATIVE INQUIRY'' IN ITS INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT David Zarefsky At the time G. Thomas Goodnight published his essay on spheres of argument, which he called "a speculative inquiry into the art of public deliberation," the "hot topic" within argumentation studies was argument fields ("Speculative" 214). Scholars had picked up on a term first used by Stephen Toulmin in The Uses of...
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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 48 (Spring 2012): 211-215 GOODNIGHT'S "SPECULATIVE INQUIRY'' IN ITS INTELLECTUAL CONTEXT David Zarefsky At the time G. Thomas Goodnight published his essay on spheres of argument, which he called "a speculative inquiry into the art of public deliberation," the "hot topic" within argumentation studies was argument fields ("Speculative" 214). Scholars had picked up on a term first used by Stephen Toulmin in The Uses of Argument. There Toulmin maintained that two arguments were in the same field if their data and conclusions were of the same "logical type" (Uses 14). (In this formulation, "logical type" was left undefined.) This was an effort to find a standard for evaluating arguments that recognized a middle ground between whimsy and caprice, on one hand, and formal deduction on the other. Toulmin was engaged in the same general project as Chaim Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca: revitalizing the concept of the reasonable. He was implying that arguments should not be evaluated purely on their effectiveness, nor should they be dependent on formal requirements. Instead, they should be judged in the context of other arguments with the same types of data and inference. By the late 1960s, however, Toulmin had moved away

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