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Dialectical argumentation with argumentation schemes: An approach to legal logic

by Bart Verheij - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW , 2003
"... This paper describes an approach to legal logic based on the formal analysis of argumentation schemes. Argumentation schemes- a notion borrowed from the field of argumentation theory- are a kind of generalized rules of inference, in the sense that they express that given certain premises a particula ..."
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This paper describes an approach to legal logic based on the formal analysis of argumentation schemes. Argumentation schemes- a notion borrowed from the field of argumentation theory- are a kind of generalized rules of inference, in the sense that they express that given certain premises a

Real arguments are approximate arguments

by Anthony Hunter - In AAAI’07, 66–71
"... There are a number of frameworks for modelling argumenta-tion in logic. They incorporate a formal representation of in-dividual arguments and techniques for comparing conflicting arguments. A common assumption for logic-based argumen-tation is that an argument is a pair 〈Φ, α 〉 where Φ is minimal su ..."
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subset of the knowledgebase such that Φ is consistent and Φ entails the claim α. However, real arguments (i.e. arguments presented by humans) usually do not have enough explicitly presented premises for the entailment of the claim. This is be-cause there is some common knowledge that can be assumed by a

1 Single Premise Deduction and Risk

by Maria Lasonen-aarnio
"... It is tempting to think that multi premise closure creates a special class of paradoxes having to do with the accumulation of risks, and that these paradoxes could be escaped by rejecting the principle, while still retaining single premise closure. I argue that single premise deduction is also susce ..."
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susceptible to risks. I show that what I take to be the strongest argument for rejecting multi premise closure is also an argument for rejecting single premise closure. Because of the symmetry between the principles, they come as a package: either both will have to be rejected or both will have to be revised.

J. Goodwin’s “Manifestly Adequate Premises” Title: Manifestly Adequate Premises

by Jean Goodwin, Jean Goodwin, Commentary J. Hoaglund
"... At the last meeting of this Society, I pointed out that much recent work in informal logic has acknowledged the importance of taking contextual factors into account when assessing an argument (Goodwin, forthcoming b). In other words, the assessment of a unit of argument depends in part on features o ..."
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dubbed the "design approach." All that was rather abstract. In this paper, I propose to carry the project forward by exploring a particular issue in argument assessment: premise adequacy. In the first section, I define the question about premise adequacy that a normative pragmatic theory has

Real Arguments are Approximate Arguments

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"... There are a number of frameworks for modelling argumentation in logic. They incorporate a formal representation of individual arguments and techniques for comparing conflicting arguments. A common assumption for logic-based argumentation is that an argument is a pair 〈Φ,α 〉 where Φ is minimal subset ..."
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subset of the knowledgebase such that Φ is consistent and Φ entails the claim α. However, real arguments (i.e. arguments presented by humans) usually do not have enough explicitly presented premises for the entailment of the claim. This is because there is some common knowledge that can be assumed by a

On argument strength

by Niki Pfeifer - THIS PAPER WILL APPEAR IN F. ZENKER (ED.), BAYESIAN ARGUMENTATION. BERLIN, HEIDELBERG: SYNTHESE LIBRARY (SPRINGER).
"... Everyday life reasoning and argumentation is defeasible and uncertain. I present a probability logic framework to rationally reconstruct everyday life reasoning and argumentation. Coherence in the sense of De Finetti is used as the basic rationality norm. I discuss two basic classes of approaches to ..."
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to construct measures of argument strength. The first class imposes a probabilistic relation between the premises and the conclusion. The second class imposes a deductive relation. I argue for the second class, as the first class is problematic if the arguments involve conditionals. I present a measure

Joyce’s Argument for Probabilism

by Patrick Maher - Philosophy of Science , 2002
"... Abstract. James Joyce’s ‘Nonpragmatic Vindication of Probabilism ’ gives a new argument for the conclusion that a person’s credences ought to satisfy the laws of probability. The premises of Joyce’s argument include six axioms about what counts as an adequate measure of the distance of a credence fu ..."
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Abstract. James Joyce’s ‘Nonpragmatic Vindication of Probabilism ’ gives a new argument for the conclusion that a person’s credences ought to satisfy the laws of probability. The premises of Joyce’s argument include six axioms about what counts as an adequate measure of the distance of a credence

Using Argumentation Strategies in Automated Argument Generation

by Ingrid Zukerman, Richard Mcconachy, Kevin B. Korb - In Proceedings of the 1st International Natural Language Generation Conference , 2000
"... using a variety of strategies, e.g., hypothetical reasoning, reasoning by cases and ordinary premise-to-goal arguments. In this paper, we offer an operational definition of the conditions for pursuing these strategies, and incorporate into a Bayesian argument-generation system a mechanism for propos ..."
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using a variety of strategies, e.g., hypothetical reasoning, reasoning by cases and ordinary premise-to-goal arguments. In this paper, we offer an operational definition of the conditions for pursuing these strategies, and incorporate into a Bayesian argument-generation system a mechanism

Argumentation Based on Classical Logic

by Anthony Hunter
"... Argumentation is an important cognitive process for dealing with conflicting information by generating and/or comparing arguments. Often it is based on constructing and comparing deductive arguments. These are arguments that involve some premises (which we refer to as the support of the argument) an ..."
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Argumentation is an important cognitive process for dealing with conflicting information by generating and/or comparing arguments. Often it is based on constructing and comparing deductive arguments. These are arguments that involve some premises (which we refer to as the support of the argument

There is no ‘truthmaker’ argument against nominalism

by Josh Parsons - Australasian Journal of Philosophy , 1999
"... In his two recent books on ontology, Universals: an Opinionated Introduction, and A World of States of Affairs, David Armstrong gives a new argument against nominalism. That argument seems, on the face of it, to be similar to another argument that he used much earlier against Rylean behaviourism: th ..."
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: the Truthmaker Argument, stemming from a certain plausible premise, the Truthmaker Principle. Other authors have traced the history of the truthmaker principle, its
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