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In:Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar
Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar
[Argumentation in Context 23] 2026
► pp. 191–208

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Chapter 12
Cooperation and competition in argumentative exchanges

Published online: 5 June 2026
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https://doi.org/10.1075/aic.23.12kra
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Platonic roots
  • 3.The eighth book of the Topics: Concealment and a common task
  • 4.New kinds of dialectic
    • 4.1Formal Dialectic
    • 4.2Pragma-dialectics
  • 5.Cooperation and competition in normative models
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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