argumentation

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)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.”

2. (uncountable, usually)An exchange of arguments

   “Their argumentation continued long into the night.”

3. (uncountable, usually)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.”