Anticipating objections in argumentation

Abstract

Anticipating objections, and even responding to a potential objection in advance as part of your argument, is a common move in argumentation. It is an important argumentation skill for teaching critical thinking skills and for rhetoric. Such a strategy is often called prolepsis, although the term has other meanings as well. Although prolepsis in argumentation is a legitimate kind of strategic maneuvering, it can be associated with problems, and even fallacies in some instances. This paper uses argumentation schemes and dialog models to study proleptic argumentation