Is “Argument” subject to the product/process ambiguity?

Abstract

The product/process distinction with regards to “argument” has a longstanding history and foundational role in argumentation theory. I shall argue that, regardless of one’s chosen ontology of arguments, arguments are not the product of some process of arguing. Hence, appeal to the distinction is distorting the very organizational foundations of argumentation theory and should be abandoned.

Keywords

• The product/process distinction with regards to “argument” has a longstanding history and foundational role in argumentation theory. I shall argue that
• regardless of one’s chosen ontology of arguments
• arguments are not the product of some process of arg