argumentation en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌɑɹɡjəmənˈteɪʃən/ (General-American)
- /ˌɑːɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/ (General-American)
- /ˌɑːɡjʊ-/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˌɑɹɡju-/ (General-American)
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- /ˌɑːɡjəmənˈteɪʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin argūmentor Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin argūmentātiōder. Middle English argumentacioun English argumentation Inherited from Middle English argumentacioun, from Anglo-Norman argumentacion, Middle French argumentation, or their etymon Latin argūmentātiō; by surface analysis, argument + -ation.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses characteristic of CAW's suggestions: what CAW has to offer are mere guesses, arrived at in a totally unsystematic way and totally unsupported by rational and reasonable argumentation.
1989 January 14, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 131:His chain of argumentation is flawed.
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(uncountable, usually) An exchange of arguments
Their argumentation continued long into the night.
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(uncountable, usually) The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.
2009, Iyad Rahwan, Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 24:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| argumentations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
argumentationally · counterargumentation · argumentational
Translations (29)
ro argumentație (reasoning) · ru аргумента́ция (reasoning) · da argumentation (reasoning) · fr argumentation (reasoning) · es argumentación (reasoning) · nb argumentasjon (reasoning) · bg аргументация (reasoning) · it argumentazione (reasoning) · nl argumentatie (reasoning) · ka არგუმენტაცია (reasoning) · nn argumentasjon (reasoning) · uk аргумента́ція (reasoning) · ro argumentare (reasoning) · pl argumentacja (reasoning) · gl argumentación (reasoning) · sk argumentácia (reasoning) · ar حِجَاجٌ (reasoning) · id argumentasi (reasoning) · ca argumentació (reasoning) · ga argóinteacht (reasoning) · pt argumentação (reasoning) · oc argumentacion (reasoning) · hu argumentáció (reasoning) · fi argumentointi (reasoning) · be аргументацыя (reasoning) · cs argumentace (reasoning) · cy dadlau (reasoning) · de Argumentation (reasoning) · hu érvelés (reasoning)