Argument Mapping with Reason!Able
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As a profession, we have standard practices for handling reasoning and argumentation. One feature of these practices is so familiar and pervasive that it is almost invisible: the medium of philosophical argumentation is prose. We spend a great deal of time articulating arguments in written prose, and identifying arguments in the writings of others. The dominance of prose goes beyond writing; even when discussing arguments or jousting philosophically, we are using prose, albeit in its spoken form.
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