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Figures of Argument (OSSA 2005 Keynote Address)
Informal Logic, 2004 From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, scientists such as Kekule, Mendel, Lavoisier and Harvey argued for insights that depended critically on antithetical expressions and reasoning.
Jeanne Fahnestock
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Thou Shalt Not Squander Life – Comparing Five Approaches to Argument Strength
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2023 Different approaches analyze the strength of a natural language argument in different ways. This paper contrasts the dialectical, structural, probabilistic (or Bayesian), computational, and empirical approaches by exemplarily applying them to a single ...
Zenker Frank +4 more
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The hidden (r)evolution: Commentary on Hauke Brunkhorsts book CriticalTheory of Legal Revolutions [PDF]
, 2015 The article is a review of Hauke Brunkhorsts book on a Critical Theory of Legal Revolutions. The author addresses three points: (1) Hauke Brunkhorsts notion of history, and of what remains unseen; (2) the dialectics of evolution and revolution, and ...
Kreide, Regina
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Dialectologia, 2022 The Irish language is among the oldest vernaculars spoken in Europe, but Ireland’s history and the language shift to English led to the almost complete demise of traditional Irish in Ireland. The current dialects areas – South, West and North – are the remnants of a much greater geographical distribution of Irish throughout the country.
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An argument for the use of Aristotelian method in bioethics [PDF]
, 2006 The main claim of this paper is that the method outlined and used in Aristotle's Ethics is an appropriate and credible one to use in bioethics. Here “appropriate” means that the method is capable of establishing claims and developing concepts in ...
A. Bäck +35 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Dialectic, Drama and Self-Knowledge in Plato’s Charmides [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2016 [Language of the article: Greek] Charmides is a dialogue highly indicative of the importance that the prologues to Plato’s works have for our understanding of the whole spirit and philosophical content of each dialogue as a whole. It is representative of
Melina G. Mouzala
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The Dialectic of Second-Order Distinctions: The Structure of Arguments about Fallacies
Informal Logic, 1992 Arguments about fallacies generally attempt to distinguish real from apparent modes of argumentation and reasoning. To examine the structure of these arguments, this paper develops a theory of dialectical distinction.
David Goodwin
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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The quality of interaction with children in collective play: Children's agency
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract There is a growing body of studies on increasing the quality of infant–toddler education and care. Yet little attention has been directed towards how to bring toddlers' agency and perspective to their personally meaningful learning in collective play.
Liang Li
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