Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Argumentation Map Etc.

Check out Ib (diagramming excited utterances) in this periodic table

See also Kn (the element "knowledge map," of course).

Credit for reference to table: Ilga Blankmeyer

2 comments:

Tim van Gelder said...

Although IBIS-style "argumentation maps" certainly have their uses, I've long maintained that they are not "true" argument maps because they can't adequately handle multi-premise arguments (and all arguments are, when you analyse them closely, multi-premise - see http://www.austhink.com/reason/tutorials/Tutorial_2/4_Golden_Rule/golden_rule.htm). But then, no other type of diagram appearing on this Periodic Table can handle such structures adequately either. That's why informal logicians had to invent their own distinctive argument structure diagrams, which were eventually embodied in software such as Rationale. Given that reasoning & argumentation are such a pervasive part of our lives, it is extraordinary that techniques for diagramming them are so little-known that they don't even make an appearance on a purportedly-comprehensive table such as this one.
Apart from *that* major problem, the Periodic Table is a very interesting piece of work, well worth a visit.

Unknown said...

Tim,

Amen!

Peter T