DIALECTICAL SWORDPLAY IN PLATO’S LACHES

Projects in Vr Swordplay: Innovating Game Development through Vr

Published by the IEEE Computer Society 0272-1716/06/$20.00 © 2006 IEEE IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 15 D espite the many revolutionary advancements in video game technology, the basic interface between the human and the gaming system has received relatively little attention. Over the past three decades, video games have been an important driving force for the advancement of real-time...

Dialectical responses to questions about dialectical thinking.

Debate about our article on culture and dialectical thinking (Peng & Nisbett, September 1999) exemplifies a thousand-yearold Confucian saying: If the participants in an intellectual discourse have different understandings about the topic in question, then the conversation will surely get difficult. Being the perpetrators who opened this Pandora's box, we feel obligated to clarify some of the co...

Argumentation structures that integrate dialectical and non-dialectical reasoning

Argumentation concepts have been applied to numerous knowledge engineering endeavours in recent years. For example, a variety of logics have been developed to represent argumentation in the context of a dialectical situation such as a dialogue. In contrast to the dialectical approach, argumentation has also been used to structure knowledge. This can be seen as a non-dialectical approach. The To...

Dialectical Relevance in Persuasion Dialogue

How to model relevance in argumentation is an important problem for informal logic. Dialectical relcvance is determined by the use of an argument for some purpose in different types of dialogue, according to the ncw dialectic. A central type of dialogue is persuasion dialogue in which one participant uses rational argumentation to try to get the other participant to accept a designated proposit...

Ambiguity in a dialectical perspective