argumentation

Inference based on reasoning from given propositions.

His chain of argumentation is flawed.

None of the traditional proposals suffers from the weaknesses characteristic of CAW's suggestions: what CAW has to offer are mere guesses, arrived at in a totally unsystematic way and totally unsupported by rational and reasonable argumentation.

An exchange of arguments

Their argumentation continued long into the night.

The addition of arguments to a model; parameterization.

An argumentation framework has an obvious representation as a directed graph where nodes are arguments and edges are drawn from attacking to attacked arguments.