Stephen Toulmin

Thinkers1922 to 2009Philosopher

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A British philosopher whose model lays out a practical argument in six parts: the claim, the grounds offered for it, the warrant linking grounds to claim, the backing for the warrant, the qualifier stating how certain the claim is, and the rebuttal naming the conditions under which it fails.

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