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Stephen Edelston Toulmin (/ ˈ t uː l m ɪ n /; 25 March 1922 – 4 December 2009) was a British philosopher, author, and educator.Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Toulmin devoted his works to the analysis of moral reasoning.
Toulmin believed that for a good argument to succeed, it needs to provide good justification for a claim. This, he believed, will ensure it stands up to criticism and earns a favourable verdict. In The Uses of Argument (1958), Toulmin proposed a layout containing six interrelated components for analyzing arguments: Claim (Conclusion)
His method of marking up an argument and representing its components with linked numbers became a standard and is still widely used. He also introduced terminology that is still current describing convergent, divergent and serial arguments. A Toulmin argument diagram, redrawn from his 1959 Uses of Argument A generalised Toulmin diagram
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Toulmin model; ... Such an argument is built up according to the following argumentation scheme: initial premise, sequential ...
Argument evaluation is the determination of the goodness of the argument: determining how good the argument is and whether, or with what reservations, it ought to be accepted. As mentioned above, in schemes accompanied by critical questions , a measure of the goodness of the argument is whether the critical questions can be appropriately answered.
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Toulmin was a philosopher whose Uses of Argument is an important text in modern rhetorical theory and argumentation theory. [113] Richard M. Weaver Weaver was a rhetorical and cultural critic known for his contributions to the new conservatism.