It is this scientific reasoning that ultimately structures scientific communication, and
argumentation theory provides a theoretical account of these phenomena.
My approach to EST teaching has been very strongly influenced by Ekkehard Eggs, professor of linguistics here at the University of Hanover and specialist in logic and
argumentation theory, who also became my PhD supervisor.
Not exact matches
Modern
theories of rhetoric have also been used to place new emphasis on
argumentation, since much classical criticism has been overly concerned with arrangement and style.
The rules of science also disqualify any purely negative
argumentation designed to dilute the persuasiveness of the
theory of evolution.
String
theory already represents an attempt to understand nature through mathematical
argumentation rather than empirical tests.
One such concept found within the language arts standards is that of
argumentation — teaching students to reason systematically in pursuit of an idea, an action, or a
theory, and also to evaluate the reasoning of others.
Critical thinking as an academic discipline is based on the rules of formal logic,
theory and practice of
argumentation, rhetoric and scientific epistemology (a section of philosophy that deals with instruments and limitations of cognitive activity).
Your
argumentation is thus very remeniscent of the «climate skeptics», (leaving aside that you reference the work of one of them in their pet journal) providing, in answer to a coherent
theory, a whole slew of doubts on particulars and a barely plausible scenario with little underlying structure.