New Dialectical Rules For Ambiguity

New Dialectical Rules ForAmbiguity

A set of ten rules is proposed for dealing with problems of ambiguity when interpreting a text of argumentative discourse. The rules are based on Grice's pragmatic rules for a collaborative conversation and on principles and maxims used to deal with ambiguity in interpreting legal and religious writings. The rules are meant to be applied to a given argument used in a given case, and to resolve ...

Ambiguity in a dialectical perspective

Dialectical Characterization of Consistent Query Explanation with Existential Rules

This paper provides a dialectical characterization of IAR and Brave semantics via argumentation dialogue. We propose a minimal argumentation dialogue system and investigate the relation between its outcome and these semantics. We show that Brave semantics corresponds to a dialogue where the opponent of the Brave-entailed query wins in any dialogue. We show also that IAR semantics corresponds to...

A New Dialectical Theory of Explanation

This paper offers a dialogue theory of explanation. A successful explanation is defined as a transfer of understanding in a dialogue system in which a questioner and a respondent take part. The questioner asks a special sort of why-question that asks for understanding of something and the respondent provides a reply that transfers understanding to the questioner. The theory is drawn from recent...

New rules for feedlots.

The incidence of a second primary breast cancer in the contralateral breast among 56,237 women with a first primary breast cancer diagnosed between the years 1943-80 in Denmark was established. The relative risk (RR) for a breast cancer patient to get yet another breast cancer was studied, taking account of age, stage and treatment of the first primary breast cancer. Based on 345,573 women year...