As my book The Uses of Argument pointed out, we must look and see how our critical standards vary from one area or activity to another-e.g. from politics to aesthetics. Hence we need to explore how these critical standards evolve, and how the most reflective and best-informed people in any area of experience refine those standards. We cannot understand where we are now unless we understand how we got here, even in a field like mathematics. Hence we must modestly recognize that the best we can do now is the best we can do now; and that those who come after us will move beyond our ideas. There is much contingency in these historical developments. © 2006 Springer.
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Toulmin, S. E. (2006). Reasoning in theory and practice. In Arguing on the Toulmin Model: New Essays in Argument Analysis and Evaluation (pp. 25–29). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4938-5_2
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