Abstract: Virtue argumentation theory (VAT) has been charged of being incomplete, given its alleged inability to account for argument cogency in virtue-theoretical terms. Instead of defending VAT against that challenge, I suggest it is misplaced, since it is based on a premise VAT does not endorse

Dual-process models of persuasion contrast the expertise heuristic "experts ' statements can be trusted " with systematic processing of message content. Studies in which source expertise and argument quality were simultaneously manipulated revealed that the expertise manipulation

study searched for a possible link between pre-service teachers ’ domain-specific knowledge and the quality of their argumentations. For data collection, Lyngved’s (2009)‘Cloning Conceptual Understanding Exam ’ (CCUE) was administered to PSTs. Given the results of the CCUE, the PSTs (44 female and 10

. They conclude that swap market-specific supply/demand shocks drive the unexplained changes in swap rates. Existing literature on credit spread changes is limited. 3 Pedrosa and Roll (1998) document considerable co-movement of credit spread changes among index portfolios of bonds from various industry, quality

argument quality is high. It is argued that these disparate predictions might be reconciled by either different involvement types (i.e., value relevant vs. outcome relevant) or different attitude modification processes (i.e., attitude change vs. attitude formation). An experiment (N = 684) varying topic

Title Provides tools for quality checks of georeferenced plant species accessions.

groups read a written anti-smoking message varying on the source’s expertise (expert or non expert) and on the quality of the arguments (12 weak/12 strong arguments). Before and after the experimental manipulation, participants completed questionnaires assessing attitudes towards smoking, intention

We consider an age replacement problem with cost function based on the renewal reward theorem. However, instead of assuming a known probability distribution for the lifetimes, we apply Hill’s assumption A (n) for predicting probabilities for the lifetime of a future item. Lower and upper bounds for the survival function of a future item are used, resulting in upper and lower cost functions. Minimising these upper and lower cost functions to obtain the optimal age replacement times is simplified due to the special form of these functions. To discuss some features of our approach, we first study the consequences of using n equally spaced percentiles from a known distribution instead of n observed data. Secondly, we report on a simulation study where the lifetimes are simulated from known distributions, so that the optimal replacement times corresponding to our approach can be compared with the theoretical optimal replacement times. 1

Auckland) is assistant brand manager, Arnott’s Biscuits Limited,

The author argues that, to be convincing, the claims of a qualitative research report must be logically and clearly supported. Eight rules for good argumentative dialogue are presented. The author then presents the process of analogical reasoning to support cross-case generalization.