Lucie Olbrechts Tyteca Knihy

Since the time of Descartes, demonstrative sciences have been considered the realm of rationality, while everything that is not demonstrable has been relegated to the realm of the irrational. Thus, ethics, sociology, law, psychology, and rhetoric have remained excluded from strict logic. The theory of argumentation aims to reintroduce rationality into the human sciences that operate with non-demonstrative means of proof. The issues related to argumentation concern various disciplines: from literature to sociology, from law to psychology. The theory of argumentation addresses them from its own perspective as the logic of non-demonstrative sciences.