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Arguing with Images as Extended Cognition

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2018
In this paper the role of images in argumentative settings is analyzed from a cognitive angle. In particular, the proposal of this paper is to see visual argumentation as a specific form of extended and distributed cognition.
Cristián Santibáñez
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Informal Logic’s Influence on Philosophy Instruction

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2008
Informal logic began in the 1970s as a critique of then-current theoretical assumptions in the teaching of argument analysis and evaluation in philosophy departments in the U.S. and Canada. The last 35 years have seen significant developments in informal
J. Anthony Blair
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Fake News: A Definition

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2018
: Despite being a new term, ‘fake news’ has evolved rapidly. This paper argues that it should be reserved for cases of deliberate presentation of (typically) false or misleading claims as news, where these are misleading by design. The phrase ‘by design’
Axel Gelfert
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Steering into the Skid: On the Norms of Critical Thinking

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2017
Cognitive bias presents as a pressing challenge to critical thinking education. While many have focused on how to eliminate or mitigate cognitive bias, others have argued that these biases are better understood as result from adaptive reasoning ...
Jeffrey Maynes
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Whately on Arguments Involving Authority

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2008
Richard Whately’s views of arguments involving authority are very different in his Elements of Rhetoric and his Elements of Logic. This essay begins by documenting these differences and wondering why they are.
Hans V. Hansen
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Whither Consequence?

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2011
There are passages in Fallacies suggesting a skeptical attitude to the very idea of inductive arguments, hence to the existence of inductive fallacies.
John Woods
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Argumentation and Fiction

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2021
Argumentation and fiction are quite different types of communicative phenomena. However, overlaps between them happen to be very frequent. We can both fictionalize by means of argumentation and argue by means of fiction. The main goal of this paper is to
Guillermo Sierra-Catalán
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Dialogue games as dialogue models for interacting with, and via, computers

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2001
The purpose of this paper is to discuss some ways in which dialectical models can be put to computational use. In particular, we consider means of facilitating human-computer debate, means of catering for a wider range of dialogue types than purely ...
Nicolas Maudet, David Moore
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Dialectical Shifts Underlying Arguments from Consequences

open access: yesInformal Logic, 2009
Eight structural criteria are developed as part of a dialogical method by testing them against seven examples of arguments from negative consequences. The aim is to provide a method for evaluating the arguments in the examples as fallacious or not. It is
Douglas Walton
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Defected Waveguide Structure With Circular Monopole Antenna For Ultrawideband Applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The next generation wireless communication claims for high resolution and high data rate which lead toward the highest level of exploring to the operating bandwidth.
Chin, Shu Jia
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