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argumentation|ˌɑːgjuːmənˈteɪʃən|
[a. F. argumentation, -acion (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. argūmentātiōn-em f. argūmentāri: see argument v.]
1. The action or operation of inferring a conclusion from propositions premised; methodical employment or presentation of arguments; logical or formal reasoning.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W.) ii. 293 b, That whiche he commaundeth not; thou sekest it by argumentacyon. 1551T. Wilson Logic 3 Logike..doth plainly and nakedly set foorth..the summe of things, by the way of argumentation. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 2 [They] preclude any argumentation from the Revealed Word of God. 1750Johnson Rambl. No. 156 ⁋2 The evidence obscured by inaccurate argumentation. 1816Scott Antiq. xxix, The eloquence and argumentation of the bar.
2. Interchange of argument, discussion, debate.
1538Starkey England 149 We wyl not..consume the tyme in argumentatyon. 1676Clarendon Surv. Leviath. 286 But what argumentation can a man hold with him. 1712Steele Spect. No. 429 ⁋10 Conscious that he is too much given to Argumentation. 1836H. Taylor Statesm. xxii. 154 Inevitably drawn into protracted argumentation.
3. A sequence or chain of arguments, a process of reasoning; = argument 4.
1548Geste Pr. Masse 106 What a misfashioned argumentation is this. 1656Cowley Pind. Odes 29 note, For when their argumentation is broken, they are forced to save themselves by flight, that is, by evasions. 1694Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 265 Who have their syllogisms and argumentations not in mood and figure, but in their heels. 1877S. Owen in Wellesley Desp. Introd. 23 His solemn warnings..his ingenious argumentations. |