In response to critique by Godden and Walton, this essay delineates the role of moral motivation in the commitment structure of ordinary presumptive inferences. It defends the capacity of ordinary presumptions to support discursive structures within which everyday argumentation can address defeasible claims and enable alignments and realignments in probative obligations, i.e., burdens of proof
In the 54 years since Thayer wrote the first excerpt, an enormous amount of excellent scholarship ha...
By explaining the argument from ignorance in terms of the presumption of innocence, many textbooks i...
Presumptions come into play in argumentation when the evidence needed to prove or disprove a positio...
This paper responds to Kauffeld’s 2009 OSSA paper, considering the adequacy of his “commitment-based...
The involvement of social considerations in our ordinary conception of presumption and corresponding...
On a Whatelian conception, a presumption is a “supposition … [that] must stand good until some suffi...
This paper joins the voices warning against hasty transference of legal concepts of presumption to o...
Presumption is a complex concept in law, affecting the dialogue setting. However, it is not clear ho...
Take some statement p that is objectively uncontroversial (e.g., “The Earth is globe-shaped”), and t...
In this paper, existing theories of presumption are compared in order to work out a more comprehensi...
This paper is an attempt to identify and provide the normative conditions for presumptions and for p...
Douglas Walton has done extensive and valuable work on the concepts of presumption and practical rea...
This paper contrasts two views of the necessity to manifest the rational adequacy of argumentation. ...
extensive and valuable work on the concepts of presumption and practical reasoning. However, Walton’...
Presumption and Burden of Proof issues play a unique role in argumentation studies. Particular argum...
In the 54 years since Thayer wrote the first excerpt, an enormous amount of excellent scholarship ha...
By explaining the argument from ignorance in terms of the presumption of innocence, many textbooks i...
Presumptions come into play in argumentation when the evidence needed to prove or disprove a positio...
This paper responds to Kauffeld’s 2009 OSSA paper, considering the adequacy of his “commitment-based...
The involvement of social considerations in our ordinary conception of presumption and corresponding...
On a Whatelian conception, a presumption is a “supposition … [that] must stand good until some suffi...
This paper joins the voices warning against hasty transference of legal concepts of presumption to o...
Presumption is a complex concept in law, affecting the dialogue setting. However, it is not clear ho...
Take some statement p that is objectively uncontroversial (e.g., “The Earth is globe-shaped”), and t...
In this paper, existing theories of presumption are compared in order to work out a more comprehensi...
This paper is an attempt to identify and provide the normative conditions for presumptions and for p...
Douglas Walton has done extensive and valuable work on the concepts of presumption and practical rea...
This paper contrasts two views of the necessity to manifest the rational adequacy of argumentation. ...
extensive and valuable work on the concepts of presumption and practical reasoning. However, Walton’...
Presumption and Burden of Proof issues play a unique role in argumentation studies. Particular argum...
In the 54 years since Thayer wrote the first excerpt, an enormous amount of excellent scholarship ha...
By explaining the argument from ignorance in terms of the presumption of innocence, many textbooks i...
Presumptions come into play in argumentation when the evidence needed to prove or disprove a positio...