Abstract
The main claim of the present paper is to defend that some specific oral debate forms of the African traditions seem to correspond structurally speaking to non-monotonic reasoning in a way that is not that different from nowadays argumentation-based approaches of legal reasoning within the context of western juridical systems. So, the aim of this survey consists in two points: on the one hand, we will show that polemical debates in African oral traditions implement systematically a non-monotonic inference, that is closed to what Aristotle termed by “dialectical arguments”; on the other hand, we are suggesting a way to deal with non-monotonic inference in a dialogical framework.
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