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Evaluating Scientific Argumentation Ability: A Framework Based on Scientific Argumentation Maps

International Journal of Science Education
Ning Ma, Yi-Fan Sun, Jiahui Guo
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Framing for scientific argumentation

Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
AbstractIn recent years, research on students' scientific argumentation has progressed to a recognition of nascent resources: Students can and do argue when they experience the need and possibility of persuading others who may hold competing views. Our purpose in this article is to contribute to this progress by applying the perspective of framing to ...
Leema K. Berland, David Hammer
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On Reichenbach’s argument for scientific realism

Synthese, 2009
The aim of this paper is to articulate, discuss in detail and criticise Reichenbach’s sophisticated and complex argument for scientific realism. Reichenbach’s argument has two parts. The first part aims to show how there can be reasonable belief in unobservable entities, though the truth of claims about them is not given directly in experience.
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Analogy in Scientific Argumentation

Technical Communication Quarterly, 2008
Analogical reasoning has long been an important tool in the production of scientific knowledge, yet many scientists remain hesitant to fully endorse (or even admit) its use. As the teachers of scientific and technical writers, we have an opportunity and responsibility to teach them to use analogy without their writing becoming “overly inductive,” as ...
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What a (scientific) argument is not

Science, 2016
Education Engaging in arguments based on evidence is a practice found in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education frameworks. Are students being taught to argue evidence in the same way that professional scientists do? MacPherson interviewed 10 ecologists about arguments both current and ongoing in their field. These data were
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The ultimate argument for scientific realism

1988
Realism and relativism stand opposed. This much is apparent if we consider no more than the realist aim for science. The aim of science, realists tell us, is to have true theories about the world, where ‘true’ is understood in the classical correspondence sense.
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On the Use of Scientific Arguments

1996
Chapters 6 and 7 describe the human brain and its setting in the process of evolution with a view to illustrating two general claims. (i) That there are some substrata of human freedom which are arguably necessary to that freedom and which are also sufficient for specific examples of natural evil.
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Fallacies in Scientific Argumentation

2016
Fallacy is defined in logic science as an argument that appears to be correct, but is logically incorrect. This chapter deals with fallacies in economics. Logical argumentations about scientific knowledge in economics may constitute fallacies. The alpha-beta method is a logical system; therefore, it can help us uncover the fallacies in economic ...
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