Introduction to Part II

Abstract

This chapter introduces Part II of our study, which focuses on the veritistic virtues—rather than, as Part I, on theconsensual value—of controversial argumentation. Generally, Part II mimics, in terms of its global organization, Part I, and this introduction, in particular, corresponds closely with Chap. 3. We outline, in a first Sect. 10.1, the overall line of reasoning of Part II by explaining how its chapters build on each other. Given this general orientation, we pinpoint, in Sect. 10.2, the different pieces of evidence which back up the main results concerningtruth-conduciveness (cf. Sect. 1.5). The corroborating findings are spread all over Part II. So, Sect. 10.2 links the condensed results reported in the general introduction to the specific simulation studies and analyses carried out in Part II.