Argumentative Act
A move in reasoning such as asserting, defining, or rebutting
An argumentative act is a distinct move in reasoning, such as asserting a claim, defining a term, providing evidence, rebutting, or undercutting an assumption. The point of naming the act is that the same sentence can play different roles depending on context: claim, evidence, definition, or critique.
In a Dialectical Graph, these acts are stored as explicit objects , not just as raw text, so later synthesis can track what was said, on what grounds, and how it was challenged.