argumentation

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Argumentation is only the comparison of two sides of a question, and you have to see what the first side IS before you can compare it with the other one, don't you?

From The Conquest of Canaan by Tarkington, Booth

Argumentation can hardly be considered as a distinct art standing by itself; it is rather a composite of several arts, deriving its fundamentals from them, and depending upon them for its existence.

From Practical Argumentation by Pattee, George K.

The purpose of this book is to teach Argumentation, which is not a science by itself but one of the four branches of Rhetoric, in such a way as to remove these criticisms.

From Practical Argumentation by Pattee, George K.

We can consider argumentation only generally, leaving minute and technical discussions to such excellent works as George P. Baker's "The Principles of Argumentation," and George Jacob Holyoake's "Public Speaking and Debate."

From The Art of Public Speaking by Carnagey, Dale

As a student the author studied Baker's Principles of Argumentation; as a teacher he has taught Laycock and Scales' Argumentation and Debate, Alden's The Art of Debate, and Foster's Argumentation and Debating.

From Practical Argumentation by Pattee, George K.