In:Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar
Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar
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Chapter 12Cooperation and competition in argumentative exchanges
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Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Platonic roots
- 3.The eighth book of the Topics: Concealment and a common task
- 4.New kinds of dialectic
- 4.1Formal Dialectic
- 4.2Pragma-dialectics
- 5.Cooperation and competition in normative models
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