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Empirical Arguments for Group Minds: A Critical Appraisal

Philosophy Compass, 2011
Abstract This entry addresses the question of group minds, by focusing specifically on empirical arguments for group cognition and group cognitive states. Two kinds of positive argument are presented and critically evaluated: the argument from individually unintended effects and the argument from functional similarity.
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Argumentation and Appraisal in Divergent Zimbabwean Parliamentary Debates

2016
The chapter makes a critical exploration of the Zimbabwean divergent parliamentary debates held after the ‘controversial' March 2008 election and June 2008 run-off. Considering the impact of the deliberations in the parliament, not much discourse- linguistic research occurs on Zimbabwean and African parliamentary discourse yet research on language use ...
Ernest Jakaza, Marianna W. Visser
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Big Business and the Third Reich: An Appraisal of the Historical Arguments

2004
The reappraisal, concentrated over the past twenty years, of big business’s relationship to the Holocaust — or more generally business’s responsibility for the consequences of National Socialism — is one of the most vibrant and controversial areas of modern historiography.
Christopher Kobrak, Andrea H. Schneider
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The Argument for Adult‒Child Sexual Contact: A Critical Appraisal and New Data

2013
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Evaluative expressions in analystical arguments: aspects of appraisal in assigned English language essays

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
Evaluative language is widely recognised as contributing to the quality of written argumentation, although investigation in this area is more prevalent in professional academic writing (e.g. Hunston, 1989 and Hyland, 2002) than in student texts. This study investigates evaluative expressions in argumentative essays written by first-year undergraduates ...
Wu Siew Mei, Desmond Allison
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Bringing consumption reviews into relief by combining Appraisal and argumentation analysis

Text & Talk, 2015
AbstractRecent years have seen a rapid influx of reviews in the field of different aesthetic and consumption domains, which is indicative of the importance assigned by present-day society to what we choose to experience and consume. Given their prevalence, there is a need to find an adequate analytic framework which allows insightful understanding of ...
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A NEW ARGUMENT IN FAVOR OF HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING IN VERY LONG TERM PROJECT APPRAISAL

International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 2014
This paper characterizes the long term social discount rate (SDR) in terms of indices of variation and identifies a class of discount functions that assign weight to the distant future in terms of the asymptotes of their hazard rates. Let A(t) be a discount function supported on [0, +∞[, whose instantaneous discount rate is δ(t) = -( ln A(t))′.
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An Appraisal of Project Mars and theDivided ArmiesArgument

International Studies Quarterly, 2022
Douglas Gibler, Steven V Miller
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Symbolic Logic and Appraisal of Argument

Teaching Philosophy, 1975
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The Legal Appraisal of Multi-Modal Arguments

2023
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