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Hitchcock has presented a way to extract the warrant from an argument. We summarize his procedure and note that applying it in specific cases may be problematic. We then extend his procedure by indicating how symbolization in a formal language addresses the problems. We indicate the richness required of such a language and then present an expanded procedure for identifying the warrant of an argument.
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Hitchcock formulates this procedure not explicitly for warrants as we have characterized them, but for the associated generalization of the argument. See (1985, p. 89).
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This procedure is a first approximation. We must address the warrant’s being unacceptable but the inference step intuitively acceptable.
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Freeman, J.B. (2015). Identifying the Warrant of an Argument. In: van Eemeren, F., Garssen, B. (eds) Reflections on Theoretical Issues in Argumentation Theory. Argumentation Library, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21103-9_7
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