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    Refutational Strategies in Mencius’s Argumentative Discourse on Human Nature
    with Xiong Ming‑hui
    Argumentation 33 (4): 541-578. 2019.
    Mencius, a prominent Confucian philosopher in the Warring States period of ancient China, is well-known for his argumentative skills, including his refutational skills used to maintain his own standpoints. This paper attempts to reveal how Mencius refuted his opponents argumentatively and strategically on the issue of human nature. To this end, the pragma-dialectical approach to argumentation is adopted to first reconstruct Mencius’s argumentative discourse on human nature according to the four …Read more