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Record W1643654416 · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511802034.007

Schemes and Enthymemes

2008· book-chapter· en· W1643654416 on OpenAlexaff
Douglas Walton, Christopher A. Reed, Fabrizio Macagno

Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2008
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMulti-Agent Systems and Negotiation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Windsor
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEnvironmental scienceComputer science

Abstract

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One of the most valuable uses of schemes is to enable an argument analyst to fill in implicit assumptions needed to make sense of a given argument she is trying to analyze. Arguments that have missing (unstated) premises or conclusions are traditionally called enthymemes in logic. One problem with enthymemes is that reasonable people can have differences of opinion on what the implicit assumptions are supposed to be. Filling in the missing parts of an enthymeme may depend on interpreting the natural language text in which the argument was put forward, to try to fairly judge what the speaker meant to say. The danger of attributing such missing assumptions to an arguer is that of unwittingly committing the straw man fallacy. This fallacy is committed when an arguer misrepresents her opponent's position to make it look more extreme or unreasonable than it really is, in order to attack it more easily. In some cases, more than one interpretation of a given argument is possible. Thus the problem is to find out what kind of evidence is needed to support or question the claim that some proposition really can be inserted into an apparently incomplete argument presented in a text of discourse, without unfairly distorting what the speaker meant to say. It will be shown in this chapter, by studying key examples, how argumentation schemes constitute an important part of this evidence.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.964
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.163 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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