The Useless-/Usefulness of Argumentation: The Dao of Disputation

Argumentation and Advocacy

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 58-70

  Combs, Steven C ^a  

^a Loyola Marymount University   (United States)

Author keywords

argumentation; Chinese rhetoric; Daoism; Laozi; Zhuangzi

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958078019     PISSN: 10511431     EISSN: 25768476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028533.2004.11821619     Document Type: Article

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