This paper provides a thorough analysis of two often informally stated claims. First, successful argumentation in the sense of persuasive argumentation requires agreement between the interlocutors about the rationality of arguments. Second, a general agreement about rationality of arguments cannot itself be established via argumentation, since such an attempt leads to an infinite meta‐regress. Hence, agreement about the rationality of arguments is a precondition for successful argumentation. As the paper argues, these plausible claims hold under the assumption that interlocutors are subjectively rational and follow their own standards of rationality when engaging in argumentation.

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元回归和说服性论证的局限性

本文对两个经常非正式表述的主张进行了全面分析。首先，说服性论证意义上的成功论证需要对话者就论证的合理性达成一致。其次，关于论证合理性的普遍共识本身不能通过论证来建立，因为这种尝试会导致无限的元回归。因此，对论证的合理性达成一致是论证成功的前提。正如本文所述，这些看似合理的主张是在以下假设下成立的：对话者主观上是理性的，并且在参与论证时遵循自己的理性标准。