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Several varieties of metareasoning are discussed. The prototypical case is argument analysis, namely the interpretation and/or evaluation of arguments. A second special case is self-reflective argumentation. A third case is methodological reflection, namely the formulation, interpretation, evaluation, and application of methodological principles; these are inexact and fallible rules stipulating useful procedures in the search for truth. A fourth case is informal logic, conceived as the formulation, testing, systematization, and application of concepts and principles for the interpretation, evaluation, and practice of argument. Two other varieties of theory of argument are characterized without elaboration, “argumentation theory” and “formal logic.”
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Finocchiaro, M.A. (1996). Reasoning about reasoning. In: Gabbay, D.M., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Practical Reasoning. FAPR 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1085. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61313-7_71
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