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Journal articles on the topic "Argument for nature"

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McWhorter, John. "The Nature of Argument." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 27, no. 2 (August 13, 2012): 377–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jpcl.27.2.07mcw.

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Fatoorchi, Pirooz. "Self-Knowledge and a Refutation of the Immateriality of Human Nature." International Philosophical Quarterly 60, no. 2 (2020): 189–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ipq202054149.

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The paper deals with an argument reported by Razi (d. 1210) that was used to attempt to refute the immateriality of human nature. This argument is based on an epistemic asymmetry between our self-knowledge and our knowledge of immaterial things. After some preliminary remarks, the paper analyzes the structure of the argument in four steps. From a methodological point of view, the argument is similar to a family of epistemological arguments (notably, the Cartesian argument from doubt) and is vulnerable to the same objection that can be raised against that form of reasoning. The last section points out that the argument can be used indirectly to highlight the weakness in some arguments for the claim that there is something immaterial in human beings.
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Andjelkovic, Miroslava. "The logico-epistemological nature of ontic and ontological arguments." Theoria, Beograd 54, no. 4 (2011): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo1104017a.

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In the paper I explore van Inwagen?s distinction between ontic and ontological arguments, the latter being a special case of the former. An ontic argument proves the existence of some entity; an ontological one proves the existence of a deity. Both are based on a single premise which specifies a set of properties exemplified by an entity of the sort in question. This set van Inwagen calls an ontic set, and he defines the ontic set of an ontological argument in a way which secures the semantic validity of the argument. I argue that an ontological argument is neither immediate nor semantically valid, but that, contrary to van Inwagen?s contention, it is rational to accept its conclusion. In my argument for this claim I rely on C.I. Lewis? notions of intension and comprehension. Although I disagree with van Inwagen?s formulation of ontic arguments, I do not reject it as a whole - its considerable advantage is, I suggest, in blocking an objection (which allegedly follows from Fregean semantics) that the sentence ?God exists? is not well formed. Consequently, part of the paper is devoted to the analysis of existential propositions. The argument I give in favour of the rationality of believing in the conclusion of an ontological argument is based on identifying and avoiding the step which leads to a generalization resembling the one that generates Kyburg?s lottery paradox.
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Stutt, Arthur, and Stephen Shennan. "The nature of archaeological arguments." Antiquity 64, no. 245 (December 1990): 766–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00078868.

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We try (most of us) to be logical in our work. We listen to arguments (most of us) and try to be persuaded by that argument which is better – because it is more logical, because it is more reasonable, because it fits the facts better. But how reliably does one tell which is better – except by illogical intuition? Computer-aided study of the structure of arguments may help
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Morgan, Jamie. "The Nature of a Transcendental Argument." Journal of Critical Realism 3, no. 2 (June 2004): 305–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jocr.v3i2.305.

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PARSONS, GLENN. "Nature Aesthetics and the Respect Argument." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76, no. 4 (September 2018): 411–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12593.

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LEWTAS, PATRICK. "Physicalism and the Intrinsic Nature of Consciousness." Dialogue 53, no. 2 (April 16, 2014): 203–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0012217314000237.

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This paper presents a metaphysical argument against physicalism based on the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic properties. It argues that the physical, as physicalism must understand it, consists entirely of extrinsic properties, whereas consciousness involves at least some intrinsic properties. It concludes that consciousness has non-physical properties and that physicalism is false. The paper then defends its premises against current physicalist thinking. As much as possible, it offers metaphysical arguments about physical and conscious properties rather than epistemological arguments about our physical and phenomenal concepts.
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Rauschenbach, Michael. "Theistic Moral Realism, Evolutionary Debunking Arguments, and a Catholic Philosophy of Nature." Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 93 (2019): 177–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/acpaproc2021430127.

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Evolutionary debunking arguments, whether defended by Street (2006), Joyce (2006), or others against moral realism, or by Plantinga (1993, 2011) and others against atheism, seek to determine the implications of the still-dominant worldview of naturalism. Examining these arguments is thus a critical component of any defense of a theistic philosophy of nature. Recently, several authors have explored the connection between evolutionary debunking arguments against moral realism (hence: EDAs) and Plantinga’s evolutionary argument against naturalistic atheism (hence: EAAN). Typically, responses in this vein have been critical of EDAs, arguing that they are in some way self-undermining. Different critics have argued that, in the course of defending the EAAN, the theist loses her best response to the probabilistic argument from evil for atheism. Here, I provide the first systematic comparison of all three arguments—EDAs, the EAAN, and the problem of evil—and suggest that the first charge succeeds while the second fails.
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Sorlin, Sverker, Alf Hornborg, and Gisli Palsson. "Negotiating Nature: Culture, Power, and Environmental Argument." Environmental History 8, no. 1 (January 2003): 132. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3985977.

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Alsina, Alex. "On the nonsemantic nature of argument structure." Language Sciences 23, no. 4-5 (July 2001): 355–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0388-0001(00)00030-9.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Argument for nature"

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Kirkham, Georgina Katharine. "Creating art or vexing nature? : ethics and the manipulation of nature, a critical study of arguments from Nature." University of Western Australia. Philosophy Discipline Group, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0163.

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This dissertation comprises a series of five separate papers, arranged as chapters, linked thematically and also in their conclusions. The thematic connection between the chapters is that, in each, I investigate some aspect, either historical or contemporary, of how moral limits have been, or might be, applied to the human manipulation of nature through technology. More specifically, I explore how the concept of naturalness has been, and still is, employed in ethical arguments that seek to place limits upon or defend the use of various technologies. In each chapter, I argue that arguments which appeal to nature or naturalness as a normative concept make proper sense only when understood from the perspective of virtue ethics. The conclusions of each chapter are connected, and connected to the conclusions of the dissertation as a whole: firstly, that what I call 'arguments from nature', as they are used in debates about the moral limitations on the use of technology, are defensible only from within a virtue ethics framework; secondly, that such arguments have an important, although limited, role in such debates; and, finally, that virtue ethics more broadly can inform debates about the ethics of technology and the environment. In the first two chapters, by comparing contemporary debates over the ethics of technological manipulation of nature with historical debates over the proper relationship between art and nature, I demonstrate that virtue ethics have played, and still do play, a significant role in our ethical understanding of our relationship with the non-human world. I argue that the ethical issues that arise from our relationship with the non-human world, in response to advances in technology and to problems with the environment, indicate the need for an understanding of ethics that goes further than the mere consideration of rights and utility. In chapters three and four, I argue that virtue ethical theory provides the most promising understanding of the argument from nature as it is applied in attempts to place limits on the human manipulation of nature. In the final chapter, I explore what a modern environmental or technological virtue or vice might be. I explain and defend the environmental and technological virtue of 'living in place' and, in doing so, bring together and validate the claims made in previous chapters that the appeal to human nature does have a role as a normative guide for our ethical evaluations of how we should live and, more generally, that virtue ethical theory can be of guiding and foundational significance in an overarching ethics of the environment and technology.
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Parker, Michael L. "Sex and the Soul: Plato’s Equality Argument in the Republic." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147887701.

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Downing, Brigid. "Developing the nature and the role of quality argument in primary science lessons through the use of concept cartoons." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413122.

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Chu, Shiao Ying Sharon. "When poetry argues : on the translation of argument in classical Chinese poems and revisiting the nature of poetry translation." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10056221/.

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The assumption of the importance of the translator’s talent has often led to the result that poetry translation appears unfathomable, in particular the view exists that poetry translation can only be successful as a form of rewriting or re-creation (Bassnett, 1998), while the difficulties and intricacies involved in poetry translation may have led to the subjectivity and ‘isolatedness’ of numerous relevant studies. In this research study, I propose the ‘argumentative perspective’ to analyze classical Chinese poetry, by which I argue that description of the nature of poetry translation can be described in a relatively objective manner. Seemingly incompatible with the strong lyric tradition of classical Chinese poetry (Liu & Lo, 1975) but nevertheless a long-standing concept in Western literary studies (Kertzer, 1988), ‘argument’ is defined in this study as having a structural and meaning dimension. Using the comparative approach in translation studies (Williams & Chesterman, 2002), I discuss how different translations of the same poem can be judged against the threshold of whether or not the poetic argument of the source text is transferred as far as possible. While different translation issues are foregrounded as I discuss the two dimensions of poetic argument, the discussions concerned are given coherence by the common aim of demonstrating the usefulness of the argumentative perspective in achieving my research purpose of an objective description of poetry translation, as well as how such a description leads to a simple and accommodating theory, the latter I propose in particular to be contribution to the field of translation studies. All in all, the conclusions derived from adopting the argumentative perspective should have generalizing power, and allow poetry translation to be understood in a way which is rid of the mysticism, subjectivity, and isolated nature associated with previous studies.
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Raymond, Richard. "La nature à la campagne : identification sociale et argument pour la gestion d'un territoire rural partagé : l'exemple du Vexin français." Paris 1, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA010513.

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Le respect de la nature est, dans nos sociétés occidentales, un principe acquis. De nombreux acteurs légitiment leurs actions ou leurs revendications en référence à ce principe. De quelle nature s'agit-il ? Les formes de nature identifiées dans le Vexin Français ont été appréhendées à partir des objets matériels désignés et de leurs fonctions. Elles apparaissent comme une part de la réalité sociale. Les paysages ont offert une clef de lecture au géographe pour approcher les croyances et les valeurs localisées qui guident cette identification. L'observation des rencontres entre agents sociaux à propos de la relation agriculture - nature fut l'occasion de dévoiler différents processus d'imposition d'une réalité sociale. Celle-ci cadre les négociations et concertations à propos de la nature et oriente les décisions prises. Enfin, cette question fut aussi l'occasion de prendre parti pour la pratique d'une géographie résolument réaliste.
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Abong'o, Christine. "Etude pragmatique des connecteurs argumentatifs luos et français : nature, distribution et effet de sens." Thesis, Pau, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PAUU1009/document.

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La présente est une analyse des connecteurs du français et de la langue luo. Beaucoup d’études de ce genre ont été réalisées et se sont intéressées à la comparaison des connecteurs d’une langue européenne à une autre. Des études portant sur les comparaisons des connecteurs d’une langue européenne à une langue soit bantoue soit nilotique ou couchitique sont rares. Dans une situation de communication, les problèmes liés au vouloir-dire du locuteur retiennent particulièrement notre attention. La présente étude poursuit les objectifs suivants : faire connaître l’origine possible des connecteurs de la langue luo et analyser les similarités et les différences entre les connecteurs de la langue luo et du français quant à leur nature, leur distribution et leur effet de sens. L’étude est basée sur la théorie de l’argumentation d’Anscombre et Ducrot (1987). Une argumentation a lieu lorsque le locuteur présente un énoncé E1 ou un ensemble d’énoncés dans le but de faire admettre à son interlocuteur un autre énoncé E2 (ou une classe d'énoncés). En rapport avec les techniques de collecte de données, notre étude a eu recours à la recherche documentaire, suivie de l’ analyse approfondie des textes littéraires, une pièce de théâtre, des discours politiques et des textes argumentatifs rédigés par les étudiants de Maseno University et Moi University. La recherche prend en considération les correspondances des connecteurs d’addition, d’opposition, de concession, de cause, de conséquence et de temps, luo et français. Les données sont analysées qualitativement car une telle analyse met en relief une description détaillée de données. Nous espérons que les résultats de cette étude intéresseront à la fois les enseignants des langues et ceux de la traduction, ainsi que leurs étudiants, les chercheurs en général et ceux qui travaillent sur les langues africaines en particulier
This is an analysis of French and Luo sentence connectors. Comparative studies are commonly found between one European language and another. Research carried out on connectors of European and Bantu, Nilotic or Cushitic languages are rare. This thesis thus seeks to fill this knowledge gap. As revealed by literature review, European languages have a wide array of connecters that express different semantic values. If identifying and pegging particular semantic values to connectors of European language poses a challenge, it could be asserted that identifying those of African languages is even a more difficult task since African languages have a smaller number of connectors which could convey a bigger array of semantic value. The objectives of the study are: to determine the possible origin of Luo connectors and to analyze the similarities and differences of Luo and French connectors in terms of nature, distribution and semantic value of the connectors. The study is guided by the argumentative theory of Anscombre and Ducrot (1987). According to the theory, in a situation of argument, the locutor presents E1 in order to orient his interlocutor towards E2. The data collection techniques are grounded on library research as well as reading and analyzing of selected literary texts, a short play, political discourse and argumentative texts written by students from Maseno and Moi Universities. The research is limited to connectors of addition, opposition, concession, cause, consequence and of time, Data is analyzed qualitatively since qualitative analysis lays greater emphasis on holistic description of data. The research adopts a descriptive analysis design because it entails analyzing existing data sets. It is hoped that the results of this study will be vital to teachers of language, teachers of translation, students and to researchers who take interest in the Africans languages
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Lai, Mei-Chun. "Nature of Science Knowledge and Scientific Argumentation Skills in Taiwanese College Biology Students." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337969498.

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Archibald, Joanna. "Museums and music : an argument in favour of a broader evaluation of the object-based nature of music collections in the United Kingdom." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15131.

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This work seeks to show that the experience gained through music in its practical and aural sense is not represented adequately in music museums because of the necessarily object-based nature of most museum displays. Restricting the analysis to museums - or their equivalent - in the United Kingdom, a representative cross-section of different museums containing music collections is studied. This material is discussed in terms of type, display, interpretation and visitors. Music's problematic standing in museums is subsequently ascribed to its essentially non-visual and transitory nature. A further series of case study museums is then examined - dealing with Film, Theatre, Sport and 'Conceptual Experiences' as subjects - each of which share elements of music's difficulty in presentation. From this, it is shown that many of these difficulties may be overcome; and some of the solutions may be adapted for musical material in both a practical and ideological sense.
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Kilian, Daniel. "Drömmen om livet nära Bullerbyn : Hur används argument för att övertyga nya inflyttare till Högsby kommun och relatera de till utländska fritidshusköpares motiv?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-51652.

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Sweden is a popular holiday destination for people from all over Europe. Its beautiful nature, the possibility of various outdoor-activities and the quintessential Swedish traditions and life-style attract tourists and potential holiday-home-owners alike. Citizens especially from countries such as Denmark, Norway and Germany are buying houses mainly in the southern and western parts of Sweden, searching for a better, easier and more relaxed life in the Swedish countryside. In my study I chose "Högsby kommun", a small municipality situated in the county of Kalmar in Småland as an exemplary case-study to show how Swedish communities deal with the steady decline of inhabitants. The aim of the study is to examine how arguments are used to convince immigrants in moving to Högsby kommun and how they relate to motives of foreign second home owners. Which arguments are used in promoting the place and what kinds of motives have foreign buyers of second homes to choose Högsby kommun as a place to stay? It is a qualitative case study, information is collected through interviews with employee of Högsby kommun and real estate agents, a content analysis of brochures and e-mail questionnaire with second home owners from Germany. The theoretical approaches are counterurbanisation in relation to lifestyle, theory of place identity and promotion of places and research of the motives in buying a second home. The results of the study show that arguments and motives building on each other. The arguments are promoting mainly a beautiful nature, quietness, a relaxed lifestyle and inexpensive housing - all of this are even motives for  foreign second home buyers moving to Högsby kommun.
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Foran, Jeffrey (Jeffrey Matthew) 1977. "Missing argument referent identification in natural language." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/80532.

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Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55).
by Jeffrey Foran.
S.B.and M.Eng.
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Books on the topic "Argument for nature"

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Lambert, Karel. The nature of argument. Lanham [Md.]: University Press of America, 1987.

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The nature of moral reasoning: The framework and activities of ethical deliberation, argument, and decision-making. South Melbourne, Vic., Australia: Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Amaya, Amalia. The tapestry of reason: An inquiry into the nature of coherence and its role in legal argument. Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015.

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Manning, Owen. An inquiry into the grounds and nature of the several species of ratiocination: In which the argument made use of in the philosophical essays of D. Hume, esq., is occasionally taken notice of. Bristol: Thoemmes, 1989.

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Manning, Owen. An inquiry into the grounds and nature of the several species of ratiocination: In which the argument made use of in the philosophical essays of D. Hume, Esq., is occasionally taken notice of : 1750. London: Routledge/Thoemmes, 1998.

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Wróblewski, Zbigniew. Natura i cele: Dyskusja argumentu teleologicznego na rzecz ochrony przyrody. Lublin: Wydawn. KUL, 2010.

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Moros, Enrique R. El argumento ontológico modal de Alvin Plantinga. Pamplona: Eunsa, 1997.

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Understanding editorial text: A computer model of argument comprehension. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990.

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Mason, Andrew John. Arguments used by modern writers in theology and philosophy that are essentially fideisticin nature. Manchester: University of Manchester, 1996.

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Book chapters on the topic "Argument for nature"

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Berry, Christopher J. "Human Nature and Political Argument." In Human Nature, 1–28. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18413-2_1.

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Dear, Peter. "Circular Argument." In The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century, 81–97. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3703-1_4.

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Alvarado, Sergio J. "The Nature of Argument Comprehension." In The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 1–23. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1561-2_1.

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Bąk, Halszka. "Emotion Universals—Argument from Nature." In Emotional Prosody Processing for Non-Native English Speakers, 27–51. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44042-2_2.

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Freeman, James B. "The Dialectical Nature of Argument." In Argumentation Library, 39–58. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0357-5_2.

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Frodeman, Robert. "The Bones of the Argument." In Transhumanism, Nature, and the Ends of Science, 1–4. New York : Taylor & Francis, 2019. | Series: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy; 123: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429199363-1.

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Psillos, Stathis. "Thinking About the Ultimate Argument for Realism." In Knowing the Structure of Nature, 48–68. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230234666_3.

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Fano, Vincenzo. "A Phenomenological Analysis of the EPR Argument." In The Nature of Quantum Paradoxes, 155–67. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2947-0_8.

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Aikin, Scott F., and Robert B. Talisse. "Public Argument in a Democratic Society." In Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Nature of Philosophy, 225–36. 1 [edition]. | New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge studies in American philosophy ; 12: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315210988-14.

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Bhattacharya, Tanmoy, and Andrew Simpson. "Argument prominence and the nature of superiority violations." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 175–211. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/la.108.12bha.

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Conference papers on the topic "Argument for nature"

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Amgoud, Leila. "A Replication Study of Semantics in Argumentation." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/874.

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Argumentation aims at increasing acceptability of claims by supporting them with arguments. Roughly speaking, an argument is a set of premises intended to establish a definite claim. Its strength depends on the plausibility of the premises, the nature of the link between the premises and claim, and the prior acceptability of the claim. It may generally be weakened by other arguments that undermine one or more of its three components. Evaluation of arguments is a crucial task, and a sizable amount of methods, called semantics, has been proposed in the literature. This paper discusses two classifications of the existing semantics: the first one is based on the type of semantics' outcomes (sets of arguments, weighting, and preorder), the second is based on the goals pursued by the semantics (acceptability, strength, coalitions).
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Dusmanu, Mihai, Elena Cabrio, and Serena Villata. "Argument Mining on Twitter: Arguments, Facts and Sources." In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/d17-1245.

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Mayer, Tobias, Elena Cabrio, and Serena Villata. "ACTA A Tool for Argumentative Clinical Trial Analysis." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/953.

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Argumentative analysis of textual documents of various nature (e.g., persuasive essays, online discussion blogs, scientific articles) allows to detect the main argumentative components (i.e., premises and claims) present in the text and to predict whether these components are connected to each other by argumentative relations (e.g., support and attack), leading to the identification of (possibly complex) argumentative structures. Given the importance of argument-based decision making in medicine, in this demo paper we introduce ACTA, a tool for automating the argumentative analysis of clinical trials. The tool is designed to support doctors and clinicians in identifying the document(s) of interest about a certain disease, and in analyzing the main argumentative content and PICO elements.
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Cabrio, Elena, and Serena Villata. "Five Years of Argument Mining: a Data-driven Analysis." In Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-18}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/766.

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Argument mining is the research area aiming at extracting natural language arguments and their relations from text, with the final goal of providing machine-processable structured data for computational models of argument. This research topic has started to attract the attention of a small community of researchers around 2014, and it is nowadays counted as one of the most promising research areas in Artificial Intelligence in terms of growing of the community, funded projects, and involvement of companies. In this paper, we present the argument mining tasks, and we discuss the obtained results in the area from a data-driven perspective. An open discussion highlights the main weaknesses suffered by the existing work in the literature, and proposes open challenges to be faced in the future.
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Steuben, John C., and Cameron J. Turner. "The Impact of Asynchronous GPGPU Behaviors on Stochastic Simulation." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-13221.

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This work examines the effect of one key aspect of General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) computing on the realism and fidelity of stochastic simulations. In particular it is shown that the asynchronous nature of GPGPU computing can be leveraged to produce increased fidelity and realism, compared to conventional computing methods, when applied to probabilistic or stochastic simulations. This is a multifaceted argument that shows: 1) Asynchronous behaviors are essential to produce high computational throughput on GPGPU devices, and thus allow more rigorous sampling, which in turn enables a deeper understanding of the underlying stochastic processes. 2) Asynchronous GPGPU computing can eliminate the “global clock” present in simulations and potentially produce a better representation of the underlying process. This paper also attempts to give a working introduction to GPGPU computing, and to the applications of this technology in the field of stochastic simulation. A range of literature regarding these simulations is also surveyed, in order to provide context. A demonstration of synchronous versus asynchronous algorithms for robot swarm path planning is used to illustrate this discussion. Several notes on the limitations of GPGPU computing in this field are also made, along with remarks regarding future development of GPGPU-accelerated stochastic simulations.
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Saint-Dizier, Patrick. "Challenges of Argument Mining: Generating an Argument Synthesis based on the Qualia Structure." In Proceedings of the 9th International Natural Language Generation conference. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/w16-6613.

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Macedo Calejo, Marta, and Graça Magalhães. "Design as a Critical Research." In Systems & Design: Beyond Processes and Thinking. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/ifdp.2016.3263.

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Historically the imaginary and the hegemonic thinking, in the Western North globe has been marked by the epistemology and capitalists archetypes. Notwithstanding the design as a practice and discipline seem shielded on a simplistic discourse of functional / communicative efficiency, wandering through multiple aestheticism apparently neutral in relation to the symbolic but in fact they never are because what really happens is that the aesthetic appearance of the generated forms will always be a review of the powers ruling. We start from understanding that the act of creating an aesthetic artefact will also be a movement of inscription in a discursive platform (that precedes it) thus being itself an narrative act and representing a positioning in relation to certain symbolic reality. On the presented reflection Design is seen as a discipline and / or an instrument of action, whose operational relevance tends to question and simultaneously rehearsing a response to not just the question why but also for what? Apparently Design is a content mediator, but also, it is structure, body and idea. We think design praxis as discipline and enrolment tool for critical thought and social transformation. For guiding research in this text, we propose the following question: Can Design form an engagement with the symbolic for them in order to be an active part in the production of critical thinking in the place where it belongs? Methodologically our argument will be present in two different moments: 1. first, exploratory nature where we rescue the draw issues in the practice of design and 2. second, analytical nature concerning the subject issues (graphic and / or utility ) of design and how it incorporates formal rites, political events and social practices of contemporary everyday life. We consider the praxis of design as a discipline and critical thinking enrolment tool as agents of social transformation. With this study we seek to contribute to design’s phenomenology by studying the artefacts of configuration as well as the possible messages they convey and what impact they may have on the social network.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/IFDP.2016.3263
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Musho, T. D., and D. G. Walker. "Coupled Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function (NEGF) Electron-Phonon Interaction in Thermoelectric Materials." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-65786.

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Over the last decade, nano-structured materials have shown a promising avenue for enhancement of the thermoelectric figure of merit. These performance enhancements in most cases have been a direct result of selectively modifying certain geometric attributes that alter the thermal or electrical transport in a desirable fashion. More often, models used to study the electrical and/or thermal transport are calculated independent of each other. However, studies have suggested electrical and thermal transport are intimately linked at the nanoscale. This provides an argument for a more rigorous treatment of the physics in an effort to capture the response of both electrons and phonons simultaneously. A simulation method has been formulated to capture the electron-phonon interaction of nanoscale electronics through a coupled non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) method. This approach is unique because the NEGF electron solution and NEGF phonon solution have only been solved independently and have never been coupled to capture a self-consistent inelastic electron-phonon scattering. One key aspect of this formalism is that the electron and phonon description is derived from a quantum point of view and no correction terms are necessary to account for the probabilistic nature of the transport. Additionally, because the complete phonon description is solved, scattering rates of individual phonon frequencies can be investigated to determine how electron-phonon scattering of particular frequencies influences the transport. This computational method is applied to the study of Si/Ge nanostructured superlattice thermoelectric materials.
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Takahashi, Yohsuke, Hajime Sawamura, and Jing Zhang. "Transforming Natural Arguments in Araucaria to Formal Arguments in LMA." In 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. IEEE, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iat.2006.126.

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Marshall, Andrew D., Prabhakar Venkateswaran, Jerry M. Seitzman, and Tim C. Lieuwen. "Pressure Effects on the Turbulent Consumption Speeds of High H2 Mixtures." In ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2012-68305.

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This paper describes measurements and correlations of turbulent consumption speeds, ST,GC, of hydrogen/carbon monoxide (H2/CO) fuel mixtures, with a focus on recently acquired elevated pressure data. Turbulent consumption speed data were obtained at mean flow velocities and turbulence intensities of 30 < U0 < 50 m/s and 5 < u′rms/SL,0 < 30, respectively, for H2/CO mixtures ranging from 30–90% H2 by volume at 5 and 10 atm. Experiments were conducted where the mixture equivalence ratio, ϕ was adjusted at each fuel composition to have nominally the same un-stretched laminar flame speed, SL,0. In comparing two blends with the same composition, SL,0 value, and flow conditions, the 5 and 10 atm data have ST,GC values that are consistently about 1.8 and 2.2 times larger than the 1 atm data, respectively. These data are also correlated with a scaling law derived from quasi-steady leading points concepts using detailed kinetics calculations of highly stretched flames. For a given pressure, these scalings do an excellent job in scaling data obtained across the H2/CO fuel composition and fuel/air range. However, the pressure sensitivities are not captured by this scaling. This pressure sensitivity may be more fundamentally a reflection of the non-quasi-steady nature of the flame leading points. In support of this argument, we show that the spread in the data can largely be correlated with the ratio of a chemical time scale to a flow time scale.
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Reports on the topic "Argument for nature"

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Barnes, Ralph M., Rebecca A. Church, Samuel Draznin-Nagy, and Dan Drebin. The nature of the arguments for creationism, and I.D. and evolution [dataset]. Montana State University ScholarWorks, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.15788/m29g6q.

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