 The
theoretical parts of Snoeck Henkemans’ work should give rise to healthy controversy.
Is the only motivation for multiple argumentation the actual or potential failure of one
of the arguments? Do the categories of the cumulative and the complementary exhaust the
species of coordinatively compound arguments, or is there at least a third species in
which the premisses are more strongly linked than they are in cumulative arguments? Is the
paradigmatic way to meet a charge of irrelevance to offer subordinatively compound
argumentation for an unexpressed premise? These are a few of the questions that will have
to be debated in light of the compelling model that Snoeck Henkemans has outlined in this
work.
Analysing Complex Argumentation is a genuine
contribution to the literature and should be read by anyone with a serious interest in the
theory of argument structure.--- Robert C. Pinto Argumentation 1994
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A. F. Snoeck Henkemans
Associated with the Amsterdam School of Argumentation, Henkemans has contributed articles
on argumentation, particularly from the standpoint of pragmatism. She is a member of the
Department of Speech Communication at the University of Amsterdam.
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