argumentation

Inherited from Middle English argumentacioun, from Anglo-Norman argumentacion, Middle French argumentation, or their etymon Latin argūmentātiō; by surface analysis, argument +‎ -ation.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɑːɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/, /ˌɑːɡjəmənˈteɪʃən/, /ˌɑːɡjʊ-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/, /ˌɑɹɡjəmənˈteɪʃən/, /ˌɑɹɡju-/

argumentation (usually uncountable, plural argumentations)

1. Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.

   His chain of argumentation is flawed.

   • 1989 January, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal‎^[1], volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 131:

     None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses characteristic of CAW's suggestions: what CAW has to offer are mere guesses, arrived at in a totally unsystematic way and totally unsupported by rational and reasonable argumentation.

2. An exchange of arguments

   Their argumentation continued long into the night.

3. The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
   • 2009, Iyad Rahwan, Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 24:

     An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.

• argumentational
• argumentationally
• counterargumentation

• “argumentation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “argumentation”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “argumentation”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “argumentation”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present.
• “argumentation” (US) / “argumentation” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin argūmentātiōnem. By surface analysis, argumenter +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ɡy.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

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argumentation f (plural argumentations)

1. argument (process of reasoning)

• “argumentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

argumentation c

1. argument, arguing; a discussion or a quarrel
2. argument; process of reasoning