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argumentation

/ˌɑːɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/US/ˌɑɹɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/

argumentation noun: inference based on reasoning from given propositions.

Noun

argumentation (usually uncountable, plural argumentations)

  1. (usually) Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
    • His chain of argumentation is flawed.
    • None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses characteristic of CAW's suggestions: what CAW has to offer are mere guesses, arrived at in a totally unsystematic way and totally unsupported by rational and reasonable argumentation.1989 January, Werner Winter, “On a new claim concerning substratum influence upon Tocharian”, in Central Asiatic Journal, volume 33, number 1/2, Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISSN, page 131
  2. (usually) An exchange of arguments
    • Their argumentation continued long into the night.
  3. (usually) The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.
    • An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.2009, Iyad Rahwan, Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, →ISBN, page 24

argumentation meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian

argumentation in Tamil

முறைப்படி விவாதித்தல்

argumentation in Arabic

reasoning
حِجَاجٌ ḥijājun

argumentation in Indonesian

reasoning
argumentasi

Examples of argumentation in a sentence

  • Only factual argumentation, no need to get personal.
  • Certainly, the background of argumentation along with its epidictic maintenance provides a good example of this kind of hegemony.
  • For epistemic markers we adopt an empirically-driven approach and utilize the epistemic markers identified in a corpus of dialogical argumentation by Hautli-Janisz et al.

All 13 example sentences with argumentation

Forms of argumentation

pluralargumentations

Origin of argumentation

Inherited from Middle English argumentacioun, from Anglo-Norman argumentacion, Middle French argumentation, or their etymon Latin argūmentātiō; by surface analysis, argument + -ation.

Words formed from argumentation

Questions about argumentation

What does argumentation mean?
Argumentation means inference based on reasoning from given propositions.
What is argumentation in Tamil?
Argumentation in Tamil is முறைப்படி விவாதித்தல். See Argumentation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is argumentation?
Argumentation is a noun.
How do you pronounce argumentation?
Argumentation is pronounced /ˌɑːɡjəmɛnˈteɪʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of argumentation?
The plural of argumentation is argumentations.

Words near argumentation in the dictionary

  1. argumenta ad verecundiam
  2. argumentable
  3. argumental
  4. argumentality
  5. argumentary
  6. argumentation
  7. argumentations
  8. argumentatious
  9. argumentative
  10. argumentative essay
  11. argumentative essays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: argumentation (page history and authors); argumentation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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