In What Sense Do Visual Arguments Exist?

Abstract

This paper critically examines the ongoing debate concerning the existence of visual arguments and proposes a solution to this existential problem. Using the type-theory framework we introduce, the existential problem of visual arguments is discussed in two senses. Firstly, this paper argues that visual arguments exist while their existence is dynamism-based. Secondly, this paper argues that visual argumentation theory exists in the sense that it can expand argumentation theory in both descriptive and normative aspects.