Explanations and arguments based on practical reasoning
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract. In this paper a representative example is chosen that is meant be fairly simple for illustrating the point that in a very com-mon kind of instance, argument and explanation are mixed in together in a text of discourse. The example is a short text found on the Inter-net that explains to the reader how to attach a flagpole bracket to the vinyl siding on the side of your house. The example uses practical rea-soning (goal-directed reasoning) of a kind widely studied in AI and logic. While the text appears to be mainly a “how-to ” explanation, it also con-tains argumentation woven into it, as shown by applying argumentation schemes (defeasible argument structures) representing common forms of argument. The problem is one of distinguishing between explanation and argument. 1 The Nature of the Problem One of the most elementary problems in defining the concept of an explanation is to provide criteria to distinguish clearly (in particular cases) the difference
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it