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Scaring the public: fear appeal arguments in public health reasoning [PDF]
The study of threat and fear appeal arguments has given rise to a sizeable literature. Even within a public health context, much is now known about how these arguments work to gain the public's compliance with health recommendations. Notwithstanding this
Louise Cummings +2 more
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Changing Perception through Media Bombardment and Demonization
The perception can be directed to a specific target, so as to result in a uniform interpretation of any message, textual or transmitted through the image, by "media bombardment". In the context of the negative collective
C. Coman, A.D. Scarlat, A. Lautaru
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Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies in Good-faith Online Discussions [PDF]
Changing someone's opinion is arguably one of the most important challenges of social interaction. The underlying process proves difficult to study: it is hard to know how someone's opinions are formed and whether and how someone's views shift ...
Chenhao Tan +3 more
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Evolutionary Debunking Arguments in Ethics [PDF]
I consider whether evolutionary explanations can debunk our moral beliefs. Most contemporary discussion in this area is centred on the question of whether debunking implications follow from our ability to explain elements of human morality in terms of ...
Mogensen, Andreas Lech +2 more
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This paper is the first to perform a systematic quantitative analysis of the arguments used to motivate selections in grammatical entries from normative works on Standard Dutch written between ca. 1550 and 1650.
Machteld de Vos
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Chinese Studies on Informal Logic and Critical Thinking
This article traces the developmental trajectory of informal logic and critical thinking in mainland China. It surveys the current developmental situation relating to their curricula, the establishment of teaching material, translations of leading works
Hongzhi Wu
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Words, Pictures, and Arguments: A Relevance-Theoretic Synthesis
Whether visual representation can function in arguments is a controversial issue. Those who claim they cannot, claim that only propositions may function thus and that as visuals cannot represent propositions, they cannot function in arguments.
Gerald Delahunty
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Posições argumentais e propriedades semânticas Argument positions and semantic properties
Este artigo apresenta uma diferente abordagem para as regras de projeção da estrutura semântica conceitual sobre a estrutura sintática. A abordagem é diferente no que diz respeito à utilização de somente quatro propriedades semânticas - desencadeador ...
Márcia Cançado
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. Both the root mean square error (RMSE) and the mean absolute error (MAE) are regularly employed in model evaluation studies. Willmott and Matsuura (2005) have suggested that the RMSE is not a good indicator of average model performance and might be a ...
T. Chai, R. Draxler
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In this paper we explore the thesis that the role of argumentation in practical reasoning in general and legal reasoning in particular is to justify the use of defeasible rules to derive a conclusion in preference to the use of other defeasible rules to derive a conflicting conclusion. The defeasibility of rules is expressed by means of non-provability
Robert A. Kowalski, Francesca Toni
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