<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Where do the rules of critical discussion get their normative force? What kinds of norms are involved? Unreasonable behaviour in the critical discussion - e.g., continuing to assert the contradictory of a proven standpoint, performing some action pragmatically inconsistent with a proven standpoint, or the same with regard to the starting-points agreed to in the opening stage - is liable to moral sanction. Thus, a moral/ethical norm is involved and the rules must have a moral force. Pragma-dialectics as it stands does not seem to account for this moral force. I will attempt to fill this gap in pragma-dialectical theory.</p></abstract>

Where do the rules of critical discussion get their normative force? What kinds of norms are involved? Unreasonable behaviour in the critical discussion - e.g., continuing to assert the contradictory of a proven standpoint, performing some action pragmatically inconsistent with a proven standpoint, or the same with regard to the starting-points agreed to in the opening stage - is liable to moral sanction. Thus, a moral/ethical norm is involved and the rules must have a moral force. Pragma-dialectics as it stands does not seem to account for this moral force. I will attempt to fill this gap in pragma-dialectical theory.

Being Reasonable

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Where do the rules of critical discussion get their normative force? What kinds of norms are involved? Unreasonable behaviour in the critical discussion -...

Being Reasonable

Pubblicato online: 26 nov 2015

Pagine: 17 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2015-0028

Parole chiave
pragma-dialectics, normativity, strategic maneuvering, collective intentionality, co-operation

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Being Reasonable

Pubblicato online: 26 nov 2015

Pagine: 17 - 36

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/slgr-2015-0028

Parole chiavepragma-dialectics, normativity, strategic maneuvering, collective intentionality, co-operation

© Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Parole chiave
pragma-dialectics, normativity, strategic maneuvering, collective intentionality, co-operation