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Argumentative Potential of Analogy in the Discourse of the Humanities
The article reveals the functions of various types of analogy in argumentative discourse, substantiates the criteria for the effectiveness of reasoning by analogy in scientific argumentation.
Tatiana Savchuk
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Argumentation scheme and shared online diagramming in case-based collaborative learning [PDF]
Argumentation schemes describe patterns of reasoning in discourse. We report an investigation into whether the argumentation scheme known as 'inference to the best explanation' (IBE) captures the argumentation found in collaborative case-based learning ...
Gladisch, T +7 more
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Arguing from Definition to Verbal Classification: The Case of Redefining 'Planet' to Exclude Pluto
The recent redefinition of 'planet' that excludes Pluto as a planet led to controversy that provides a case study of how competing scientific definitions can be supported by characteristic types of evidence.
Douglas Walton
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Argument Schemes for Factor Ascription [PDF]
Reasoning with legal cases by balancing factors (reasons to decide for and against the disputing parties) is a two stage process: first the factors must be ascribed and then these reasons for and against weighed to reach a decision. While the task of determining which set of reasons is stronger has received much attention, the task of factor ascription
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson
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Value-based argumentation [PDF]
Value-based argumentation is concerned with recognising, accounting for, and reasoning with, the social purposes promoted by agents’ beliefs and actions. Value-based argumentation frameworks extend Dung’s abstract argumentation frameworks by ascribing an
Bench-Capon, T, Atkinson, K
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Story Similarity in Arguments from Analogy
In this paper a hybrid model of argument from analogy is presented that combines argumentation schemes and story schemes. One premise of the argumentation scheme for argument from analogy in the model claims that one case is similar to another.
Douglas Walton
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Do medical students generate sound arguments during small group discussions in problem-based learning?: an analysis of preclinical medical students’ argumentation according to a framework of hypothetico-deductive reasoning [PDF]
Purpose Hypothetico-deductive reasoning (HDR) is an essential learning activity and a learning outcome in problem-based learning (PBL). It is important for medical students to engage in the HDR process through argumentation during their small group ...
Hyunjung Ju, Ikseon Choi, Bo Young Yoon
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We analyze the main topoi used by English-language editorials to build their arguments in order to construct a negative image of immigrants. The relevance of this study is due to the specificity of the trends in the construction of immigration discourse ...
M. S. Matytcina
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Des paradoxaux aux schémas argumentatifs
This article aims to develop Carel’s view on ‘paradoxical’ utterances, based on two fundamental notions of the Theory of Semantic Blocks, ‘argumentative sequence’ and ‘argumentation scheme’.
Kohei Kida
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Justification of Argumentation Schemes
Argumentation schemes are forms of argument that capture stereotypical patterns of human reasoning, especially defeasible ones like argument from expert opinion, that have proved troublesome to view deductively or inductively. Much practical work has already been done on argumentation schemes, proving their worth in A1 [19], but more precise ...
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