Auditory arguments: The logic of 'sound' arguments

Abstract

This article discusses "audi-tory" arguments: arguments in which non-verbal sounds play a central role. It provides examples and explores the use of sounds in argument and argumenta-tion. It argues that auditory arguments are not reducible to verbal arguments but have a similar structure and can be evaluated by extending standard infor-mal logic accounts of good argument. I conclude that an understanding of au-ditory elements of argument can usefully expand the scope of informal logic and argumentation theory.