Commentary on Johnson

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This paper responds to one by Ralph Johnson in which he explores the question, how do logic and rhetoric differ in their approaches to the study of argumentation?I begin by rejecting the categories Logic and Rhetoric as too abstract and argue for a focus on their specialized branches, informal logic and the rhetoric of argumentation.The rhetoric of argumentation shares an understanding of the nature of "argumentative space" very much like the understanding of informal logic.Once this is established, the differences between the two specialized fields do not appear to be what Johnson hypothesizes.

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