Abstract

What is the use of argumentation? Discussing theoretically and empirically the value and the function of argumentation.This paper has two main goals. First, discussing some conceptual issues about the value and function of the argumentative practice taking into consideration some critical position to the standard perspective on the matter; and second, presenting and discussing the result of an empirical research about the value and function that young colleges students give to the argumentative activity in order to offer ecological information that allows to refuse or corroborate the conceptual discussion.