What does "counter-reasoning" exactly mean?
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What does "counter-reasoning" exactly mean?
I have got trouble finding its meaning in the web or in a dictionary.
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According the "Harvard College Writing Center"
According to Wikipedia:
The same source gives this useful schematic (Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement):
EDIT: I’ve just realised that I haven’t used the exact phrase counter-reasoning. The explanation involving these exact words is difficult to come by on the internet. To support the claim that the above does answer the question:
Counter (as an adjective) MW defines as:
There are not many examples of usage (about 825 on Google Books, and some false positive), but this example conveys the same meaning for counter-reasoning as the term counter-argument (explained above). It is a note in a translation of Plato’s Protagoras talking about Bonitz using counter-reasoning by Socrates as a proof of a certain statement being refuted. It’s the most direct explanation I managed to dig up.