| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Basic Tools in the State of the Art | p. 7 |
| Introducing Argumentation Schemes | p. 8 |
| Argument from Position to Know and Expert Opinion | p. 13 |
| Critical Questions | p. 15 |
| Enthymemes, Schemes, and Critical Questions | p. 18 |
| Argument Diagramming Tools | p. 21 |
| Introducing Araucaria | p. 24 |
| Problems to be Solved | p. 30 |
| How Are Schemes Binding? | p. 34 |
| Directions for AI | p. 38 |
| Where We Go from Here | p. 40 |
| Schemes for Argument from Analogy, Classification, and Precedent | p. 43 |
| The Case of the Drug-Sniffing Dog | p. 45 |
| Argument from Analogy as Treated in Logic Textbooks | p. 48 |
| Is Argument from Analogy Deductive or Inductive? | p. 53 |
| The Schemes for Argument from Analogy | p. 55 |
| Argument from Analogy as a Defeasible Form of Argument | p. 60 |
| Arguments from Classification | p. 66 |
| Arguments Based on Rules and Classifications | p. 70 |
| Argument from Precedent and Practical Argument from Analogy | p. 72 |
| The Case of the Drug-Sniffing Dog Again | p. 75 |
| Conclusions | p. 80 |
| Knowledge-Related, Practical, and Other Schemes | p. 87 |
| Arguments from Knowledge | p. 87 |
| Practical Reasoning | p. 94 |
| Lack-of-Knowledge Arguments | p. 98 |
| Arguments from Consequences | p. 100 |
| Fear and Danger Appeals | p. 102 |
| Arguments from Alternatives and Opposites | p. 106 |
| Pleas for Help and Excuses | p. 108 |
| Composition and Division Arguments | p. 112 |
| Slippery Slope Arguments | p. 114 |
| Attacking Verbal Classification and Slippery Slope Arguments | p. 117 |
| Arguments from Generally Accepted Opinions, Commitment, and Character | p. 121 |
| Arguments from Popular Opinion | p. 122 |
| Variants of the Basic Form | p. 124 |
| Argument from Commitment | p. 132 |
| Arguments from Inconsistency | p. 136 |
| Ethotic Arguments | p. 140 |
| Circumstantial Ad Hominem | p. 147 |
| Argument from Bias | p. 154 |
| Ad Hominem Strategies to Rebut a Personal Attack | p. 160 |
| Causal Argumentation Schemes | p. 163 |
| The Problem of Causation | p. 164 |
| Argument from Cause to Effect | p. 168 |
| Argument from Effect to Cause | p. 169 |
| Argument from Correlation to Cause | p. 173 |
| Cases in Point | p. 175 |
| Causal Argumentation at Stages of an Investigation | p. 178 |
| Causal Assertions as Defeasible | p. 181 |
| Toward a System of Analysis and Classification | p. 184 |
| Dialectical and Bayesian Models of Causal Argumentation | p. 186 |
| Schemes and Enthymemes | p. 189 |
| Introduction | p. 190 |
| Preliminary Discussion of the Problem | p. 191 |
| A Deductive Case | p. 194 |
| Limitations of Deductive Analysis | p. 196 |
| Use of Argumentation Schemes in Analysis | p. 199 |
| Use of Schemes in Analyzing Weak Arguments | p. 202 |
| Limitations of Schemes | p. 206 |
| Discussion of Cases | p. 210 |
| The Attribution Problem | p. 213 |
| The Dialectical Component of the Enthymeme Machine | p. 216 |
| Attack, Rebuttal, and Refutation | p. 220 |
| Attacking, Questioning, Rebutting, and Refuting | p. 221 |
| Older Theories of Refutation | p. 230 |
| Newer Theories of Refutation | p. 238 |
| Argumentation Schemes and Critical Questions | p. 243 |
| Toward a Pragmatic Theory of Refutation | p. 247 |
| Different Kinds of Opposition | p. 251 |
| Internal and External Refutation | p. 259 |
| A Case Study of Combined Rebuttals | p. 263 |
| The Problem of Argument from Opposites | p. 267 |
| Problems about Critical Questions and Refutations | p. 271 |
| The History of Schemes | p. 275 |
| Aristotle on the Topics | p. 276 |
| Cicero | p. 282 |
| Boethius | p. 284 |
| From Abelard to the Thirteenth Century | p. 289 |
| Fourteenth-Century Logic | p. 294 |
| Topics in the Renaissance and the Port Royal Logic | p. 296 |
| Modern Theories of Schemes | p. 300 |
| Conclusions | p. 304 |
| A User's Compendium of Schemes | p. 308 |
| Argument from Position to Know | p. 309 |
| Argument from Expert Opinion | p. 310 |
| Argument from Witness Testimony | p. 310 |
| Argument from Popular Opinion (and Subtypes) | p. 311 |
| Argument from Popular Practice | p. 314 |
| Argument from Example | p. 314 |
| Argument from Analogy | p. 315 |
| Practical Reasoning from Analogy | p. 316 |
| Argument from Composition | p. 316 |
| Argument from Division | p. 317 |
| Argument from Oppositions | p. 317 |
| Rhetorical Argument from Oppositions | p. 318 |
| Argument from Alternatives | p. 318 |
| Argument from Verbal Classification | p. 319 |
| Argument from Definition to Verbal Classification | p. 319 |
| Argument from Vagueness of a Verbal Classification | p. 320 |
| Argument from Arbitrariness of a Verbal Classification | p. 320 |
| Argument from Interaction of Act and Person | p. 321 |
| Argument from Values | p. 321 |
| Argument from Sacrifice | p. 322 |
| Argument from the Group and Its Members | p. 322 |
| Practical Reasoning | p. 323 |
| Two-Person Practical Reasoning | p. 325 |
| Argument from Waste | p. 326 |
| Argument from Sunk Costs | p. 326 |
| Argument from Ignorance | p. 327 |
| Epistemic Argument from Ignorance | p. 328 |
| Argument from Cause to Effect | p. 328 |
| Argument from Correlation to Cause | p. 328 |
| Argument from Sign | p. 329 |
| Abductive Argumentation Scheme | p. 329 |
| Argument from Evidence to a Hypothesis | p. 331 |
| Argument from Consequences | p. 332 |
| Pragmatiic Argument from Alternatives | p. 333 |
| Argument from Threat | p. 333 |
| Argument from Fear Appeal | p. 333 |
| Argument from Danger Appeal | p. 334 |
| Argument from Need for Help | p. 334 |
| Argument from Distress | p. 334 |
| Argument from Commitment | p. 335 |
| Ethotic Argument | p. 336 |
| Generic Ad Hominem | p. 336 |
| Pragmatic Inconsistency | p. 336 |
| Argument from Inconsistent Commitment | p. 337 |
| Circumstantial Ad Hominem | p. 337 |
| Argument from Bias | p. 338 |
| Bias Ad Hominem | p. 338 |
| Argument from Gradualism | p. 339 |
| Slippery Slope Argument | p. 339 |
| Precedent Slippery Slope Argument | p. 340 |
| Sorites Slippery Slope Argument | p. 340 |
| Verbal Slippery Slope Argument | p. 341 |
| Full Slippery Slope Argument | p. 341 |
| Argument for Constitutive-Rule Claims | p. 342 |
| Argument from Rules | p. 343 |
| Argument for an Exceptional Case | p. 344 |
| Argument from Precedent | p. 344 |
| Argument from Plea for Excuse | p. 345 |
| Argument from Perception | p. 345 |
| Argument from Memory | p. 346 |
| Refining the Classification of Schemes | p. 347 |
| A Proposed General System for Classification of Schemes | p. 348 |
| Classification of Ad Hominem Schemes | p. 351 |
| Classifying the Subtypes of Ad Hominem Arguments | p. 357 |
| Complications | p. 360 |
| Conclusions | p. 362 |
| Formalizing Schemes | p. 364 |
| The Defeasible Modus Ponens Form of Schemes | p. 364 |
| Schemes in AML | p. 367 |
| Elements of a Formalization of Schemes | p. 369 |
| Formalization of Schemes in the Carneades System | p. 371 |
| Formally Modeling the Critical Questions | p. 373 |
| The Argument Interchange Format | p. 375 |
| The Research Project for Developing a Formal System | p. 378 |
| Schemes in Dialogue | p. 382 |
| Summary of the Dialectical System ASD | p. 388 |
| A Worked Example of a Dialogue in ASD | p. 389 |
| Conclusions | p. 392 |
| Schemes in Computer Systems | p. 393 |
| Schemes in Araucaria | p. 393 |
| Schemes in ArguMed | p. 397 |
| Schemes in Compendium | p. 400 |
| Schemes in Rationale | p. 400 |
| Schemes in Natural Language Argumentation | p. 405 |
| Schemes in Interagent Communication | p. 408 |
| Schemes in Automated Reasoning | p. 411 |
| Schemes in Computational Applications | p. 412 |
| Conclusions | p. 414 |
| Bibliography | p. 417 |
| Index | p. 431 |
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