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Critical Discussion
Disciplines > Argument > Critical Discussion Confrontation | Opening | Argumentation | Closing | See also
Van Eemeren and Grootendorst (1984) describe the purpose the critical discussion as having the purpose to resolve a conflict of opinions by means of rational argumentation and describe the process as follows: ConfrontationAt the Confrontation stage, a dispute appears where the one person advances a 'point of view', whilst the other person casts doubt on that point of view or puts forward an opposing point of view. OpeningAt the Opening stage, the two parties agree to seek resolution by expressing opposing points of view, and undertake to resolve the conflict by advancing opposing rational arguments. ArgumentationDuring the Argumentation stage, each side puts forward arguments to support his or her own point of view, and each takes turns questioning and criticizing the arguments put forward by the other side. The rules for the argumentation stage are as follows:
Closing stageA successful critical discussion ends in the Closing stage with the resolution of the initial conflict of opinions. It is generally considered as a win-lose argument which means that one party is deemed as successful while the other is not. See alsovan Eemeren, Frans H., Grootendorst, Rob, (1984). Speech Acts in Communicative Discussions. Foris, Dordrecht. |
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