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    An argument may aim to promote reflection and raise important questions rather than to resolve disagreement.

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    • 1.Not all arguments aim to resolve disagreement.
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    • 2.Some arguments are presented with the purpose of promoting reflection and raising important questions.
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    • 1.Arguments are structurally defined by their function of providing reasons that justify or refute conclusions (Toulmin, 'The Uses of Argument').
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    • 2.Promoting reflection without truth-directed resolution is better classified as rhetoric or inquiry, not argumentation proper.
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    • 3.Conflating argument with open-ended inquiry dissolves the conceptual boundary that makes argument a distinct epistemic practice.
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    • 1.Pragma-dialectical theory (van Eemeren & Grootendorst) grounds argumentative norms in the goal of resolving differences of opinion.
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    • 2.If argumentation is severed from resolution-seeking, it loses the normative standards by which moves can be judged valid or fallacious.
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    As Pinto and Gilbert have emphasized, this means that a successful argument (which is successful in the sense that it accomplishes the arguer’s purpose in presenting the argument), may produce a withholding of assent (or full assent) to some proposition, a particular attitude, an emotional state like fear or hope, or a certain kind of behavior (by, e.g., as when an argument demands that people take up arms against a foe or take action in support of social change). When one bargains, the goal of
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