Dear Terry,
As I see it design rationale does not tell the whole story of design arguments since, unsurprisingly, it is primarily concerned with epistemological aspects of argumentation. In my view, a more complete picture of design argumentation should probably also account for the ontological aspects of argumentation and knowledge creation.
The epistemological aspects tend to deal with components of argumenation such as knowledge, truth, justification, beliefs, propositions, premises, reasons, enthymemes, syllogisms, inference rules, argumentation schemes, conviction, persuasion, validity, reliablism, tacit and explicit knowledge, formal and informal knowledge, and so on. The ontological aspects tend to deal with concepts such as agency and structure, collective representations, organizational knowledge, social norms, myths, ideology and so on. Granted, the commitment to ontological the aspect of design arguments also comes with the commitment to concepts such as minds, culture, and society and so might not be to everyone's taste.
Best,
Luke
Luke Feast, Ph.D. | Industrial Design | Senior Lecturer | Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies | Auckland University of Technology | New Zealand | Email [log in to unmask] |
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