The Logocratic Method, and the Logocratic theory that underwrites it, provide a philosophical explanation of the nature of arguments and of two principal purposes or goals that arguers have for their arguments across the vast range of argument contexts. First, to make arguments that are evidentially strong (the argument’s premises provide evidence for its conclusions, to a greater or lesser degree— greatest degree being in valid deductive arguments), Second, to make arguments that are agonically strong (that win an actual or virtual argument contest, as for example in litigation contests between plaintiffs or prosecutors on the one hand, and defendants, on the other, or majority and dissenting judges).