Argument schemes, topoi, and laws of logic

In a pragma-dialectical reconstruction of argumentative discourse, argumentation schemes are used to analyze the way in which the acceptability of the argument is transferred to that of the standpoint. In some contexts, the analytical armamentarium that is needed to reconstruct such an Acceptability Transfer Principle (ATP) is conceived of as consisting not only of argumentation schemes, but also of topoi and laws of logic. This is especially the case in the context of scholarly argumentation (scientific, philosophical argumentation), in which the notion of necessity plays a pivotal role. In this paper, a formal framework is presented that encompasses all three conceptions of acceptability transfer principles (topoi, laws of logic, and argumentation schemes).