The Case against Conditional Argumentation [microform] / Dale A. Herbeck
- Bib ID:
- 5521183
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Herbeck, Dale A
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- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED322540
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1990
- 13 p.
- Summary:
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Despite literally tens of thousands of rounds of debate competition over a number of years, little insight into argumentation theory has resulted. Debate as practiced by college debating teams has become a laboratory for perfecting itself. Permitting the divergence of debate from argumentation forfeits an ideal opportunity to study argumentation. The use of conditional argument can be assessed as it relates to argumentation theory and practice. Conditional argument, defined as a contention that is developed hypothetically, can be dismissed at any point in debate, irrespective of how such a claim has been argued. As such, conditional argumentation is inappropriate and undesirable in debate competition because it: (1) fails to satisfy the minimum preconditions necessary for meaningful argumentation; (2) results in shoddy advocacy in absolving the debater of intellectual accountability; and (3) cannot be evaluated meaningfully. Allowing conditional claims would not make for more rigorous comparison of policies, while barring such arguments would neither render debate unreal or artificial nor unfairly restrict negative options. Conditional argumentation should be discouraged in academic debate. (Nineteen footnotes are included.) (SG)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Communication Association (81st, Philadelphia, PA, April 19-22, 1990).
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