Hypertext Webster Gateway: "argumentation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Argumentation \Ar`gu*men*ta"tion\, n. [L. argumentatio, from
argumentari: cf. F. argumentation.]
1. The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing
conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion;
the operation of inferring propositions, not known or
admitted as true, from facts or principles known,
admitted, or proved to be true.
Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught
it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth.
--Tyndale.
2. Debate; discussion.
Syn: Reasoning; discussion; controversy. See {Reasoning}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
argumentation
n : methodical reasoning; "I can't follow your line of
reasoning" [syn: {logical argument}, {line of reasoning},
{line}]
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