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Reasoning and argument sometimes occur in back-and-forth argumentative discussions. The goal of participants in an argumentative discussion is to reach a shared rationally supported position on an issue. The discussion is a persuasion dialogue if it starts with a proponent advancing a thesis, but an inquiry or deliberation dialogues if it starts with a factual or policy issue. Other pure types of dialogue (information-seeking, negotiation, quarrel) are not argumentative discussions. Formal systems for conducting argumentative discussions are more constrained than real-life discussions, and are difficult to assess for soundness and completeness if they are realistic enough to allow for data-gathering and modification of theses. But their development has both theoretical and practical benefits. In particular, there may be a place for formal systems of inquiry dialogue where interlocutors arrive jointly at an answer to a question that none of them can reach individually.
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Hitchcock, D. (2017). Postscript. In: On Reasoning and Argument. Argumentation Library, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53562-3_21
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