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The Roles of Evidence in Scientific Argument

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2008
Over the past decades, education researchers have shifted their understanding of science from “a rhetoric of conclusions”—that is, a fixed canon of content—to a social process of knowledge construction. While much of the research has investigated individual learners as they engage with scientific ideas, experiments, and methods, increasingly ...
Leslie J. Atkins, Charles Henderson, Mel Sabella, Leon Hsu   +3 more
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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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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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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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The Logic of Scientific Argument

1987
Science and deductive logic are not equivalent. In this chapter the logical basis of science is presented. A general feature of all deductively valid arguments is that the conclusion contains no more information than that which is given in the premises. The conclusion simply restates the information in the premises.
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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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The Stases in Scientific and Literary Argument

Written Communication, 1988
This article explores the usefulness of identifying the stasis of an argument, that is, whether it concerns an issue of fact, definition, cause, value, or action. The stasis of an argument can be seen as a component that has to be justified. An author must either assume or overtly appeal to the value of addressing a particular audience on a topic in a ...
JEANNE FAHNESTOCK, MARIE SECOR
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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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Scientific Realism and the No Miracles Argument

2019
The No Miracles Argument (NMA) is perhaps the most prominent argument in the debate about scientific realism. It contends that the truth of our best scientific theories is the only hypothesis that does not make the astonishing predictive and explanatory success of science a mystery.
Jan Sprenger, Stephan Hartmann
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An Inconvenient Truth: the scientific argument

GeoJournal, 2007
The movie An Inconvenient Truth is a powerful portrayal of global warming and its impacts. The main scientific argument presented in the movie is for the most part consistent with the weight of scientific evidence, but with some of the main points needing updating, correction, or qualification.
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