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It is common to think of argument or argumentation as a set of reasons put forward for the purpose of persuading or convincing an audience or interlocutor that something is so. Govier, for example, offers a definition which is fairly typical:
An argument is a set of claims that a person puts forward in any attempt to show that some further claim is rationally acceptable.1
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Pinto, R.C. (2001). Generalizing the Notion of Argument. In: Argument, Inference and Dialectic. Argumentation Library, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0783-1_2
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