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Spheres
Collections of people interacting and making critical decisions
Group Structuration
Develop using rules and resources while processing information.
Personal Spheres
Private life, relationships and emotions rather than public
Technical Spheres
Those in which formal argumentative patterns are enforced.
Public Spheres
People who seek public debate and recognition by relevant decision makers.
Rhetoric
The ability to perceive available means of persuasion.
Audience
The spectators or listeners within the sphere.
Probability
The odds of something happening or being true.
Proof
Evidence or argument to establish facts or truth.
Criteria
Standards on which decisions should be based.
Critical Decision
One that would likely have a serious and material impact.
Reasonable
That which is appropriate, fair, and sensible within the sphere.
Criteria
Standards on which decisions should be based.
Worldviews
A philosophy of life or concept of the world
Reasonable Arguments
Those based on sound judgment - fair and sensible by Decision Makers
Starting Points
The place to begin an argument with which your opponent agrees
Facts
Empirical - from observation or experience where there is no controversy.
Probabilities
The degree to which something is expected to happen.
Presumption
What is thought to be true until a new one is accepted to replace it.
Commonplaces
Areas of agreement from which arguments can be built.
A Fortiori
Greek an even stronger reason
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