Philosophy, argumentation
Stephen Toulmin
1922 – 2009
Claim, grounds, warrant, rebuttal — a way of slowing a decision by exactly one useful step, without turning it into a study.
Read alongside: Sense
- Start with
- The Uses of Argument (1958)
- Where they resist the book
- Laid over a live conversation the model can formalise what was better left conversational.
Works worth the time
The Uses of Argument · 1958
Claim, grounds, warrant, rebuttal — the model that slows a decision by one useful step.
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Where Toulmin appears
II. StayCritical thinking
Urgency is the most common defeater of judgement.
Speed is not the enemy; unexamined speed is. Toulmin's anatomy of an argument — claim, grounds, warrant, rebuttal — is a way of slowing a decision by exactly one useful step. Popper's contribution is the habit of asking what evidence would change your mind, before the evidence arrives.