Another rhetorical technique to reach one’s goals in a discussion concerns the use of emotional arguments. In its simplest form this could, for example, be the purely emotional rejection of a statement using the expression “I don’t feel it that way”, which, although it contains no logical argument, can influence the outcome of the discussion. Carofiglio and De Rosis [26] state that argumentation knowledge and emotion should be combined to select the most promising strategy to reach one’s goals.
Information about previous meetings might, as background knowledge, be relevant for understanding some of the argument structures.