Criticisms of a taxonomy of argument forms can attack either completeness or decisional adequacy.

Evidence

First, they could believe, having surveyed the practices of American constitutional argument, that I have simply omitted one widely practiced form-that my list of six forms is not comprehensive because some arguments cannot sensibly be made to fit in any of the six categories I offer. Second, they could believe that my list is inadequate to decide cases, and thus they infer that there must be an additional modality. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 408

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The term normative conflates two distinct kinds of evaluation. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 502

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