ARGUMENTATION!

As sited from wikipedia, Argumentation embraces the arts and sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation, and persuasion; studying rules of inference, logic, and procedural rules in both artificial and real world settings. Argumentation is concerned primarily with reaching conclusions through logical reasoning, that is, claims based on premises. Although including debate and negotiation which are concerned with reaching mutually acceptable conclusions, argumentation theory also encompasses eristic dialog, the branch of social debate in which victory over an opponent is the primary goal.

This art and science is often the means by which people protect their beliefs or self-interests in rational dialogue, in common parlance, and during the process of arguing. Argumentation is used in law, for example in trials, in preparing an argument to be presented to a court, and in testing the validity of certain kinds of evidence. Also, argumentation scholars study the post hoc rationalizations by which organizational actors try to justify decisions they have made irrationally.

We also have to observe the key components of argumentation which are the following:

First we need to understand and identify the arguments and the goals of the participants in the different types of dialogue; second, identify the premises form which conclusions are derived; third, determine who made the initial claim and is thus responsible for providing evident why his position merits acceptance; lastly one must try to identify faulty reasoning in the opponent’s argument, to attcj the reasons of the argument, to provide counterexamples if possible, to identify any logical fallacies, and to show why a valid conclusion cannot be derived from the reasons provided for his arguments.