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#argument
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Una contesa tra avversari d'accordo sui principi
«Una volta padre Nicanor portò al castagno una scacchiera e una scatola di gettoni per invitarlo a giocare a dama, ma José Arcadio Buendia non accettò, affermando che non aveva mai potuto capire il significato di una contesa tra due avversari che erano d’accordo sui princìpi…
Hello Haskell, Goodbye Lisp
Macros in lisp
Another beauty of Lisp is its macro facility. I’ve not seen its like in any other language. Because the forms of code and data are equivalent, Lisps macro are not just text substitution, they allow you to modify code structure at compile-time. It’s like having a compiler…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Il vuoto non è un'opinione
Non si ammette alcun concetto, e ogni teoria può essere smentita o demolita. Nei toni di una dialettica serrata non si sostiene alcuna posizione e ci si limita a contraddire l’interlocutore, mostrandogli l’inconsistenza dei suoi assunti. È il metodo della reductio ad absurdum…
Micropublications: A Semantic Model For Claims, Evidence, Arguments And Annotations In Biomedical Communications
Semantic integration contributes to the information value chain in science
Such a common metadata representation of scientific claims, argument, evidence and annotation in biomedi- cine should serve as an integrating point for the original publication, subsequent annotations, and all other com- putational methods, supporting a single framework for…
Micropublications model arguments and evidence in articles
The micropublications model is adapted to the Web, and designed for (a) representing the key arguments and evidence in scientific articles, and (b) supporting the “layering” of annotations and various useful formalizations upon the full text paper.
Scientific publications as defeasible arguments
Our model is based on understanding scientific publications as arguments, which present a narrative of experi- ments or observations, the data obtained, and a reasoned interpretation (“finding”) of the data’s meaning [38]. Such arguments present a line of reasoning, to a “best”…
The goal of an argument is to induce belief
Micropublications represent scientific arguments. The goal of an argument is to induce belief [44]. An argument (therefore a micropublication) argues a principal claim, with statements and/or evidence deployed to support it. Its support may also include contrary statements or…
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
The argument from analogy lacks an independent check
According to the argument from analogy, I infer the existence of mental states in other people, by analogy with myself. Just as I observe a correlation of my own behavior with my mental states, so I can infer the presence of appropriate mental states in others when I observe…
Three arguments against dualism
The refutation of dualism is harder. Let us define dualism as the view that there are two distinct metaphysical ontological realms in the universe, one mental the other physical. This is harder to refute, because whereas materialism postulated the nonexistence of something we…
Straw Man - Wikipedia
Straw man argument
A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting an argument which was not advanced by that opponent.[1] The so-called typical "attacking a straw man" argument creates…
Taking Philosophical Dialogue Online
Analysis (philosophy)
Students must be able to: analyse a philosophical problem or position into its component parts and be able to tell how they are connected together; analyse an argument into premises and conclusions, and reconstruct the structure of the argument, filling in implicit premises…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
The homunculus and the infinite regress
it is tempting to think that light shines on the retina and then the brain creates from this a single, three-dimensional image. But who sees this image? The temptation is to think (or perhaps more usually assume) that there is a kind of mind’s eye which inspects the image in…
An inner experiencer can't explain unity
You cannot explain the unity of experience by simply positing an inner, unified experiencer. That simply begs the question: how is unity of experience possible in the first place?
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic
The false analogy between the humanities and the sciences: humanistic thinking is creative and it doesn't proceed by experiments
If computers cannot think better than human beings, digital humanists are left with the argument that at least they can think faster—the John Henry argument. In the essay “Developing Things: Notes toward an Epistemology of Building in the Humanities,” Ramsay and Geoffrey…
Understanding Digital Humanities (david M. Berry)
The humanities require new, appropriate, and digitally focused methods
The sceptic who states that data mining and pattern recognition in works of literature debases close reading ignores the prevalent mood of human action in a time of computational ubiquity – close reading has a role in the humanities, but it will not deal with the sprawl of…