When speaking of such terms as « dialectical » or « critical » psychology, one generally first thinks of the names of a number of well-known French, German and Soviet psychologists (for example Sève, Holzkamp, Rubinstejn, Vygotskij). Much less notoriety is enjoyed by the representatives of an influential and well-organised school which originated in the United States under the name of « dialect...

In this paper we offer an explanation of how formal dialectical systems are useful for modeling important aspects of argumentation, like dealing with fallacies. This aim is accomplished by presenting a brief outline of the main characteristics and rules of two representative systems, one of the Hamblin type and one of the Lorenzen type. We use these two systems to discuss aspects of argumentati...

Undoubtedly, Ralph H. Johnson and J. Anthony Blair are two of the patriarchs of informal logic (IL), and they remain its most recognized exponents. The informal logic movement initially began as a rejection of the tools of formal logic as an effective means of analysing and evaluating everyday reasoning and argumentation. As it developed, IL began to adopt a dialectical conception of its subjec...

A dialectical rough set theory focussed on the relation between roughly equivalent objects and classical objects was introduced in [1] by the present author. The focus of our investigation is on elucidating the minimal conditions on the nature of granularity, underlying semantic domain and nature of the general rough set theories (RST) involved for possible extension of the semantics to more ge...

comorbidity between borderline personality disorder and substance abuse disorder is very high. the present study examined the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy on negative emotion regulation strategies in women with borderline personality disorder and substance abuse. based on the willingness to participate in the research, structured clinical interview and the criteria for inclusio...

dialectical frameworks and beyond

Modern binary informatics with its so-called ―classical‖ two-valued logic admits to create an artificial intellect and suppresses the natural intellect of students and other thinking people. Logic that based on dogmatic law of the excluded middle is incompatible with dialectical principle of opposition coexistence. Such logic is deprived of fundamental logical relation – the content consequence...

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 ...

Dialectical egalitarianism holds that every asserted proposition requires defence when challenged by an interlocutor. This view apparently generates a vicious “regress of justifications,” since an interlocutor can challenge the premises through which a speaker defends her original assertion, and so on ad infinitum. To halt the regress, dialectical foundationalists such as Adler, Brandom, Leite,...