ABSTRACT
Originally published in 1967. This is an examination of warrant statements – statements which indicated something about the grounds on behalf of some further judgement, choice or action. The first part of the study is concerned with the role of warrant statements in theoretical discourse; while the second part concerns their role in practical discourse. Also examined are necessity, probability, knowing, seeing and the complex of terms which allow us to introduce an argumentative structure into discourse.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |114 pages
Part One
chapter |6 pages
Introduction
chapter I|21 pages
Warrant statements
chapter II|28 pages
The alethic modalities
chapter III|22 pages
Knowing
chapter IV|19 pages
Perceptual terms
chapter V|16 pages
The diction of argument
part |70 pages
Part Two