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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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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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Scientific arguments upon patent litigation

2010 3rd International Nanoelectronics Conference (INEC), 2010
These instructions give you basic guidelines for preparing scientific arguments during the patent litigation, in addition to provide the insights and helpful hints how to prevent patent litigation from laboratory experiments design, patent mapping towards patent filing.
null Mei-Hsin Wang, null Fu-Tsung Wang
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Perspectives on Scientific Argumentation

2012
Foreword, Deanna Kuhn.- PART I: Theoretical Premises of the Study of Argumentation.- Chapter 1 Introduction, Jonathan Osborne, Anna MacPherson, Alexis Patterson, Evan Szu.- Chapter 2 The Two Faces of Scientific Argumentation: Applications to Global Climate Change, E. Michael Nussbaum, Gale M. Sinatra, Marissa C.
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Key Arguments for Scientific Realism

2020
In this chapter, I present in canonical (or standard) form and then evaluate key arguments for scientific realism (or against antirealism about science). The first argument is the most influential Positive Argument for scientific realism, most commonly known as the “no miracles” argument, which purports to show that scientific realism is the best ...
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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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Transcendental Arguments in Scientific Reasoning

Erkenntnis, 2018
Although there is increasing interest in philosophy of science in transcendental reasoning, there is hardly any discussion about transcendental arguments. Since this might be related to the dominant understanding of transcendental arguments as a tool to defeat epistemological skepticism, and since the power of transcendental arguments to achieve this ...
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Arguments Concerning Scientific Realism

1980
Abstract This chapter examines and criticizes the main arguments offered for scientific realism, here identified as the following view: Science aims to give us, in its theories, a literally true story of what the world is like; and acceptance of a scientific theory involves the belief that it is true. In contrast, constructive empiricism,
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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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