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How to Improve the Convergent Argument Calculation

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2001
Quantitative apparatus for assessing strength of an argument was improved in the article. A probative generalisation and verification of the R.Yanal's algorithm to calculate convergent argument were proposed.
Alexander V. Tyaglo
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Information and argument patterns in the Introduction sections of sociology research papers

open access: yesIbérica, 2022
This study analysed the information-argument structure of the Introduction sections of sociology research papers, to identify differences across three types of sociology research: Investigative research, Development and Evaluation research, and ...
Wei-Ning Cheng   +1 more
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Evaluating arguments and making meta-arguments

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2001
This paper explores the outlines of a framework for evaluating arguments. Among the factors to take into account are the strength of the arguers' inferences, the level of their engagement with objections raised by other interlocutors, and their effectiveness in rationally persuading their target audiences.
openaire   +3 more sources

Parent Quality of Life at Two Years Following Their Child's Completion of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Parents of children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often experience significant caregiver burden and disruption to their well‐being. While parent quality of life (QoL) during treatment is well characterized, little is known about outcomes during early survivorship.
Sara Dal Pra   +3 more
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The Zen of Argument Analysis: Reflections on Informal Logic's Argument Evaluation Contest

open access: yesInformal Logic, 1994
An argumentative passage that might appear to be an instance of denying the antecedent will generally admit of an alternative interpretation, one on which the conditional contained by the passage is a preface to the argument rather than a premise of it ...
Don S. Levi
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Raising argument strength using negative evidence: A constraint on models of induction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Both intuitively, and according to similarity-based theories of induction, relevant evidence raises argument strength when it is positive and lowers it when it is negative.
A Feeney   +29 more
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Intermediate statistics in quantum maps

open access: yes, 2004
We present a one-parameter family of quantum maps whose spectral statistics are of the same intermediate type as observed in polygonal quantum billiards.
Aurich R Marklof J   +18 more
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Reasoning under uncertainty: the role of two informal fallacies in an emerging scientific inquiry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
It is now commonplace in fallacy inquiry for many of the traditional informal fallacies to be viewed as reasonable or non-fallacious modes of argument.
Cummings, L
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Improving Students' Evaluation of Informal Arguments [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Experimental Education, 2009
Evaluating the structural quality of arguments is a skill important to students' ability to comprehend the arguments of others and produce their own. The authors examined college and high school students' ability to evaluate the quality of 2-clause (claim-reason) arguments and tested a tutorial to improve this ability.
Aaron A, Larson   +2 more
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A PRSZT Registry Analysis of Prognostic Factors Influencing Survival and Relapse Rates After Second Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A second allogeneic (allo‐)hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT2) is a potential curative option for pediatric patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) following relapse after first allogeneic transplantation (HSCT1), but its efficacy is limited by high relapse rates and transplant‐related toxicity in highly pretreated ...
Ava Momm   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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