Informal Logic and the Concept of Argument

Hitchcock, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53562-3_29

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“…E.g., see Scriven 1976, p. 84;Grennan 1994, p. 187;Groarke 2002, p. 51;Vorobej 2006, pp. 8-9;and Bermejo-Luque 2011a, p. 90. We may think that there are two independent roles for "therefore" and its cognates: mere conclusion designator (e.g., Corcoran 1993) 2 ; and the expression of a relation of support between premises and conclusion (e.g., see Epstein 2002, Hamblin 1970, and Hitchcock 2007. The therefore of informal logic differs from the formal-logic therefore, because informal logic considers arguments in their reason-giving sense.…”

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Inference Claims as Assertions

McKeon

2021

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When a speaker states an argument in arguing—in its core sense—for the conclusion, the speaker asserts, as opposed to merely implies or implicates, the associated inference claim to the effect that the conclusion follows from the premises. In defense of this, I argue that how an inference claim is conveyed when stating an argument is constrained by constitutive and normative conditions for core cases of the speech of arguing for a conclusion. The speech act of assertion better reflects such conditions than does implication, conversational implicature, or conventional implicature.

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Inference Claims as Assertions

McKeon

2021

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“…One of the contributions of Informal Logic has been to stimulate thinking about questions like: "What is meant by 'argument' ?" The Informal Logic Initiative has called attention to what a rich construct 'argument' is, allowing, as it does, for a great many different articulations (see Hitchcock, 2006). The standard definition of 'argument' in logic textbooks was that an argument is a set of premises that support a conclusion, typically with no reference to purpose.…”

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“…Then one posits that soundness is both necessary and sufficient for a good argument. Challenges to this view have been mounted by Govier (1987) and and Hitchcock (2006), among oth-ers. In brief, they argue that soundness is neither necessary nor sufficient for a good argument.…”

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Logical Culture as a Common Ground for the Lvov-Warsaw School and the Informal Logic Initiative

Johnson

Koszowy

2018

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

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In this paper, we will explore two initiatives that focus on the importance of employing logical theories in educating people how to think and reason properly, one in Poland: The Lvov-Warsaw School; the other in North America: The Informal Logic Initiative. These two movements differ in the logical means and skills that they focus on. However, we believe that they share a common purpose: to educate students in logic and reasoning (logical education conceived as a process) so that they may be able to apply their skills to analyze the issues in their society (logical culture as a result of logical education). The aim of the paper is to justify this claim by exploring research objectives and products that are common to both movements.

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“…The model used for the manual analysis of the arguments of the corpus is an adaptation of the criteria of Informal Logic for the detection and analysis of arguments (Hitchcock, 2007), the theory of collective intentionality of Searle (2014) and Tuomela (2013), and the classification of controversial topics in the American academic debate of Snider and Schnurer (2002) and Branham (1991).…”

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200K+ Crowdsourced Political Arguments for a New Chilean Constitution

Fierro

Fuentes

Pérez

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Argument Mining

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In this paper we present the dataset of 200,000+ political arguments produced in the local phase of the 2016 Chilean constitutional process. We describe the human processing of this data by the government officials, and the manual tagging of arguments performed by members of our research group. Afterwards we focus on classification tasks that mimic the human processes, comparing linear methods with neural network architectures. The experiments show that some of the manual tasks are suitable for automatization. In particular, the best methods achieve a 90% top-5 accuracy in a multiclass classification of arguments, and 65% macro-averaged F1-score for tagging arguments according to a three-part argumentation model.

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Informal Logic and the Concept of Argument

Cited by 20 publications

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Inference Claims as Assertions

Inference Claims as Assertions

Logical Culture as a Common Ground for the Lvov-Warsaw School and the Informal Logic Initiative

200K+ Crowdsourced Political Arguments for a New Chilean Constitution

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