A Critical Discussion Game for Prohibiting Fallacies

A Critical Discussion Game for Prohibiting Fallacies

The study of fallacies is at the heart of argumentation studies. In response to Hamblin’s devastating critique of the state of the theory of fallacies in 1970, both formal dialectical and informal approaches to fallacies developed. In the current paper, we focus on an influential informal approach to fallacies, part of the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. Central to the pragma-dialec...

Game Controllers: A Critical Discussion of Input Devices in Game Design

Game design is a process with a focus primarily on creating an engaging game experience. However, in order for game design to advance further toward this goal, the design of input devices along with their connection to the interface also require critical discussion. This study compares two different controllers in order to evaluate the impact of their design on gameplay.

A Discussion Game for Grounded Semantics

Graph kernels for chemoinformatics – a critical discussion

We analyze the use, advantages, and drawbacks of graph kernels in chemoin-formatics, including a comparison of kernel-based approaches with other methodology, as well as examples of applications. Kernel-based machine learning [1], now widely applied in chemoinformatics, delivers state-of-the-art performance [2] in tasks like classification and regression. Molecular graph kernels [3] are a recen...

Discussion Note HAMBLIN ON THE STANDARD TREATMENT OF FALLACIES

Johnson (1990) has accused Charles Hamblin, the author of Fallacies (1970), of critical failures some of which could even amount to allegations that Hamblin himself committed fallacies in his treatment of textbook writers on the fallacies prior to 1970. According to Johnson (p.165), Hamblin's treatment of the Standard Treatment of the fallacies in the textbooks up to that time exhibits "lack of...