Contemporary theories highlight the importance of Others for an individual's reasoning and/or argumentation. Reasoners and arguers are encouraged to interact with imagined constructs or with other people, which are meant to bring to mind overlooked reasons and counter-considerations so as to improve the quality of reasoning or argumentations. But this advice ignores the impact of differing individual's imaginative abilities, while consulting other people comes with its own serious limitations. Reasoners and arguers would do just as well to improve their own critical creative capacities first.Résumé: Les théories contemporaines soulignent l'importance des autres pour que nous puissions bien raisonner et argumenter. Afin d'amé-liorer la qualité de nos raisonnements et de nos arguments, nous sommes encouragés à interagir avec des constructions imaginées ou avec des personnes qui ont pour but d'avancer les raisons et les contreconsidérations que nous négligeons dans nos raisonnements et dans nos arguments. Mais ce conseil ignore l'influence de nos différentes capacités d'imagination et les limites sé-rieuses dans la consultation des autres. Nous ferions tout aussi bien d'améliorer nos propres capacités créatives critiques.
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