ABSTRACT
The argumentation that a protagonist, at the argumentation stage, advances in defense of his standpoint is crucial to the resolution of the dispute. As explained in chapter 6, besides explicit premises, the argumentation will generally also contain unexpressed premises. They throw, as it were, an invisible bridge between the explicit premises and the standpoint that is being defended. In a critical evaluation of the discourse, both the explicit and the implicit components of the argumentation must be considered.
