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Record W1681065072 · doi:10.22329/il.v20i2.2265

The Significance of Informal Logic for Philosophy

2000· article· en· W1681065072 on OpenAlex
David Hitchcock

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Bibliographic record

VenueInformal Logic · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicMulti-Agent Systems and Negotiation
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArgument (complex analysis)EpistemologyInformal logicSoundnessDialecticDialogical selfConformityRelevance (law)PhilosophySociologyArgumentation theoryLawPolitical scienceLinguistics

Abstract

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Informal logic is a new sub-discipline of philosophy, roughly definable as the philosophy of argument. Contributors have challenged the traditional concept of an argument as a premiss-conclusion complex, in favour of speech-act, functional and dialogical conceptions; they have identified as additional components warrants, modal qualifiers, rebuttals, and a dialectical tier. They have objected that "soundness" is neither necessary nor sufficient for a good argument. Alternative proposals include acceptability, relevance and sufficiency of the premisses; conformity to a valid argument schema; conformity to rules for discussion aimed at rational resolution of a dispute. Informal logic is a significant part of philosophy.

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DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.889
Threshold uncertainty score0.311

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Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.258
Teacher spread0.221 · 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