Theory and practice of argumentation

The proposed book is a textbook, which is written on the basis of the course in Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov at public relations, philosophy and religious branches. Under the argument means the rationale for any knowledge through other knowledge or actual data and means of logic. Factors of non-institutional nature are described that affect the adoption of certain knowledge for reasonable (pragmatic, psychological and rhetorical) Contains examples of arguments, exercises, a program, questions for self-test (and verification) of knowledge, criteria of scientific relations and bad knowledge, methodology for solving problems and design results of scientific work. For students, graduate students and everyone who spends or evaluates the argument (politicians, lawyers, people"s assessors, etc)