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In this paper I explore how the evolution of emotional expression and co-operative planning in humans may inform the way they communicate about risks, and what implication this may have for models of rationality in risk communication. In particular, I focus on aspects of human language that...
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Given an argumentation framework and a group of agents, the individuals may have divergent opinions on the status of … the arguments. If the group needs to reach a common po- sition on the argumentation framework, the question is how the …
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Given an argumentation framework and a group of agents, the individuals may have divergent opinions on the status of … the arguments. If the group needsto reach a common position on the argumentation framework, the question is how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370237
In an Online Argumentation Platform, a great deal of speech messages are produced. To find similar speech texts and … extract their common summary is of great significance for improving the efficiency of argumentation and promoting consensus …
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This article examines the shifting nature of invention with digital infrastructure as a rhetorical locale for composing writing collaboratively. Because composing collaboratively involves inquiry, the article examines the framework for a successful community of inquiry in a digital space already...
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necessarily lead to students' knowledge-constructing discourse and reflective learning. Integrating argumentation into online … Argumentation (SODA) that they created for designing an asynchronous online discussion. Based on the design framework, the authors … developed and implemented an argumentation activity in a graduate-level online course. They then examined participants …
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We asked jurors awaiting trial assignment to listen to a recorded synopsis of an authentic criminal trial and to make a choice among 4 verdict possibilities. Each participant juror then deliberated with another juror whose verdict choice differed, as a microcosm of a full jury's deliberation....
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We often lack clear procedures for assessing statements and arguments advanced in everyday conversations, political campaigns, advertisements, and the other multifarious uses to which ordinary language can be put. Critical thinking is a method for evaluating arguments couched in ordinary,...
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In 1990s there has been a "boom" of extensive technology foresight studies based on the use of the Delphi method. This study examines critically e.g. national foresight studies made in Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and Austria. The study suggests that the epistemic paradigm of the general...
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According to the principle of Normative Individualism, the evaluation of economicstates and processes should be guided exclusively by the wishes of the individuals whoare seen as the only bearer of values. Despite its intuitive appeal and its almost universalacceptance in normative economics...
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