Review of basic concepts and exercises on argumentation theory and tools

Themes covered in this session:

1. Dialectical validity of arguments

Exercises:

1. Exercises argument evaluation (link)
2. Kwakman figure
3. Kwakman text

Reading:

1. Henry Prakken, Formalising debates about law-making proposals as practical reasoning. M. Araszkiewicz & K. Pleszka (eds.): Logic in the Theory and Practice of Lawmaking. Legisprudence Library Series, Springer 2015, 301-321.

Software

• OVA-GEN, for computing Dung labellings. (Create arguments with a mouse click, draw arrows by holding the shift key, then clicking on an argument and dragging to another argument. Then compute the labellings by choosing “Preferred” under “Acceptability”).