Is ‘argument’ subject to the product/process ambiguity?
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The product/process distinction with regards to “argument” has a longstanding history and foundational role in argumentation theory. I shall argue that, regardless of one’s chosen ontology of arguments, arguments are not the product of some process of arguing. Hence, appeal to the distinction is distorting the very organizational foundations of argumentation theory and should be abandoned. Resumé: La distinction processus/produit appliquée aux arguments joue un rôle de fondement de la théorie de l’argumentation depuis longtemps. Quelle que soit l’ontologie des arguments qu’on adopte, je soutiens que les arguments ne sont pas le produit d’un processus d’argumentation. Donc l’usage de cette distinction déforme le fondement organisationnel de la théorie d’argumentation, et par conséquent, on devrait abandonner cette
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