The paper considers contemporary models of presumption in terms of their ability to contribute to a working theory of presumption for argumentation. Beginning with the Whatelian model, we consider its contemporary developments and alternatives, as proposed by Sidgwick, Kauffeld, Cronkhite, Rescher, Walton, Freeman, Ullmann-Margalit, and Hansen. Based on these accounts, we present a picture of presumptions characterized by their nature, function, foundation and force. On our account, presumption is a modal status that is attached to a claim and has the effect of shifting, in a dialogue, a burden of proof set at a local level. Presumptions can be analysed and evaluated inferentially as components of rule-based structures. Presumptions are defeasible, and the force of a presumption is a function of its normative foundation. This picture seeks to provide a framework to guide the development of specific theories of presumption.
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Kampka, Agnieszka & Marta Kobylska
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Yu, Forest
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2021. The Dominant Narrative of the New Zealand–China Free Trade Agreement: Peripheral Evidence, Presumptive Tilt and Business Realities. New Political Economy 26:3 ► pp. 328 ff.
Gonnerman, Chad, Kaija Mortensen & Jacob Robbins
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Lebens, Samuel
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Galloway, Lauren F. E.
2020. “A Conspiracy of the Nation”: Case Study of Stokely Carmichael’s and H. Rap Brown’s Arguments in Support of Black Power. Journal of Black Studies 51:1 ► pp. 83 ff.
Burgess-Jackson, Keith
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Neville-Shepard, Ryan
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Neville-Shepard, Ryan
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Bermejo-Luque, Lilian & Cristina Corredor
2017. Introduction for a Special Volume of Argumentation on Presumptions, Presumptive Inferences and Burdens of Proof. Argumentation 31:3 ► pp. 463 ff.
Bodlović, Petar
2017. Dialogical Features of Presumptions: Difficulties for Walton’s New Dialogical Theory. Argumentation 31:3 ► pp. 513 ff.
Bodlović, Petar
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Bodlović, Petar
2021. On the Differences Between Practical and Cognitive Presumptions. Argumentation 35:2 ► pp. 287 ff.
2017. Presumptions in Speech Acts. Argumentation 31:3 ► pp. 573 ff.
Gama, Raymundo
2017. The Nature and the Place of Presumptions in Law and Legal Argumentation. Argumentation 31:3 ► pp. 555 ff.
Godden, David
2017. Presumption as a Modal Qualifier: Presumption, Inference, and Managing Epistemic Risk. Argumentation 31:3 ► pp. 485 ff.
Godden, David
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Lewiński, Marcin
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Mehlenbacher, Ashley Rose, Randy Allen Harris & Chrysanne Di Marco
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Plumer, Gilbert
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Von Burg, Ron
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Hoefer, Rolf L. & Sandy E. Green
2016. A Rhetorical Model of Institutional Decision Making: The Role of Rhetoric in the Formation and Change of Legitimacy Judgments. Academy of Management Review 41:1 ► pp. 130 ff.
Moldovan, Andrei
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Paglieri, Fabio & Cristiano Castelfranchi
2014. Trust, relevance, and arguments. Argument & Computation 5:2-3 ► pp. 216 ff.
Aijaz, Imran, Jonathan McKeown-Green & Aness Webster
2013. Burdens of Proof and the Case for Unevenness. Argumentation 27:3 ► pp. 259 ff.
MACAGNO, FABRIZIO & DOUGLAS WALTON
2012. Presumptions in Legal Argumentation. Ratio Juris 25:3 ► pp. 271 ff.
Ricco, Robert B.
2011. Individual differences in distinguishing licit from illicit ways of discharging the burden of proof. Journal of Pragmatics 43:2 ► pp. 616 ff.
Cummings, Louise
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