Argumentation and the Social Grounds of Knowledge

A departure from the traditional orientation that conceived of argumentation as applied logic.... [This book] exhibit[s] a concern for the social knowledge generated by a practice of communication in real situations[,] provide[s] suggestions for interpreting interactions in which incompatible ideas come into conflict, and attempt[s] to explain how human beings thus come to know. - Philosophy and Rhetoric ""[An] important book....Indeed, revolutionary."" - Jahrbuch Rhetorik