The linked-convergent distinction
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Sic Sat (International Society for the Study of Argumentation)
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The linked-convergent distinction introduced by Stephen Thomas in 1977 is primarily a distinction between ways in which two or more reasons can directly support a claim, and only derivatively a distinction between types of structures, arguments, reasoning, reasons, or premisses. As with the deductive-inductive distinction, there may be no fact of the matter as to whether a given multi-premiss argument is linked or convergent.
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The content of this paper was presented at the 8th International Conference on Argumentation in Amsterdam on July 4, 2014.
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Hitchcock, David. 2015. The linked-convergent distinction. In Bart Garssen, David Godden, Gordon Mitchell, & Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (Eds.), "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, July 1-4, 2014." Amsterdam: Sic Sat.