argumentation

From French, from Latin argūmentātiō.

argumentation (usually uncountable, plural argumentations)

1. Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.

   His chain of argumentation is flawed.

2. An exchange of arguments

   Their argumentation continued long into the night.

3. The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
   • 2009, Iyad Rahwan, Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 24:

     An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.

• argumentational
• argumentationally
• counterargumentation

• “argumentation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “argumentation”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “argumentation”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “argumentation”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “argumentation” (US) / “argumentation” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin argūmentātiōnem. By surface analysis, argumenter +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ɡy.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

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argumentation f (plural argumentations)

1. argument (process of reasoning)

• “argumentation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

argumentation c

1. argument, arguing; a discussion or a quarrel
2. argument; process of reasoning