The Problem of Premissary Relevance

his paper focuses on the issue of premissary relevance, as a challenge faced in health promotion interventions. To promote attitude change and influence health behavior change, it is crucial that we use premises that are relevant on an individual level. Relevance in argumentation refers to both the fact that the premises have to do with the standpoint at issue and the fact that our interlocutors will accept them. We claim that autonomous argumentation systems hold the promise to enable proper argumentative exchanges that capture and addresses what matters to individuals. To do so, however, there is a need to better consider and operationalise theories of argumentation that enable a reconstruction of the different stages of argumentation. The theory of argumentation known as pragma-dialectics can offer a promising basis for the architecture of autonomous health promotion advisors.