argumentation

See also: Argumentation

English

Etymology

From French, from Latin argūmentātiō.

Noun

argumentation (usually uncountable, plural argumentations)

1. Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.

   His chain of argumentation is flawed.

2. An exchange of arguments

   Their argumentation continued long into the night.

3. The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
   • 2009, Iyad Rahwan, Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 24:

     An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.

Derived terms

• argumentational
• argumentationally
• counterargumentation

Collocations

Collocations

• legal argumentation
• rational argumentation
• cogent argumentation
• philosophical argumentation
• abstract argumentation
• logical argumentation
• moral argumentation
• political argumentation
• theological argumentation
• scientific argumentation
• inward argumentation
• forcible argumentation
• positive argumentation
• slow argumentation
• detailed argumentation
• reasoned argumentation
• supporting argumentation
• preceding argumentation
• written argumentation
• sustained argumentation

Translations

reasoning

• Arabic: حِجَاجٌ m (ḥijājun)
• Czech: argumentace (cs) f
• Danish: argumentation c
• Finnish: argumentointi (fi)
• Galician: argumentación (gl) f
• Irish: argóinteacht f, ^{(please verify)} foclaíocht f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: argumentasjon m

  Nynorsk: argumentasjon m

• Polish: argumentacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: argumentação (pt) f
• Romanian: argumentare (ro) f, argumentație (ro) f
• Russian: аргумента́ция (ru) f (argumentácija)

Further reading

• “argumentation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “argumentation”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “argumentation”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “argumentation”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “argumentation” (US) / “argumentation” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin argūmentātiōnem. By surface analysis, argumenter +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ɡy.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

argumentation f (plural argumentations)

1. argument (process of reasoning)

Further reading

• “argumentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

argumentation c

1. argument, arguing; a discussion or a quarrel
2. argument; process of reasoning

Declension

Declension of argumentation
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	argumentation	argumentationen	argumentationer	argumentationerna
Genitive	argumentations	argumentationens	argumentationers	argumentationernas