Postscript (on patterns of reasoning)

Argumentation schemes should be generated by a mixture of top-down theorizing and bottom-up abstraction, should be both descriptive and prescriptive, can all be regimented into species of a single one-premiss super-scheme, should be as general as is consistent with being readily applicable, have three kinds of associated critical questions (concerning their premiss, their assumptions, and exceptions), are the same as reasoning schemes, and in …