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Language Reasoning by means of Argument Mining and Argument Quality
… this thesis, we are interested in analyzing the arguments of financial experts with the goal of supporting investment decisions. Although various business studies confirm the crucial role of argumentation in financial communications, no work has addressed this problem as a computational …
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Explainable Argument Mining
… opinions they do. This is the task addressed by argument mining. The majority of argument mining techniques explored to date have focused on applying existing computational linguistic techniques to identify specific facets of the argumentative structure (for example, classifying …
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Syntax-driven argument identification and multi-argument classification for semantic role labeling
… process: identify constituent phrases that are arguments to a predicate, then label those arguments with appropriate thematic roles. Existing systems for semantic role labeling use machine learning methods to assign roles one-at-a-time to candidate arguments. There are several drawbacks to this …
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Kirschner's Modal Ontological Argument
<p>Ontological Arguments for the existence of God, first discovered by St. Anselm (1033-1109), attempt to deduce the existence of God from the concept of God. It is the aim of this thesis to champion a modal version of the Ontological Argument as philosophically sound by demonstrating it to be …
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Argument Realization in Thai
… how children come to interpret omitted arguments, four experiments are reported involving Thai-speaking adults, English-speaking adults, Thai-speaking 4- and 5-year-olds, and English-speaking 5-year-olds. Participants listened to nonce verbs in an intransitive frame embedded in short …
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Argument as design: a multimodal approach to academic argument in a digital age
… using a range of modes and genres to construct argument can engender different ways of thinking about argument in the academic context. It investigates the potentials and constraints of adopting a multimodal approach to constructing academic argument. The research is situated within a seminar, …
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The inconsistent cartesian dreaming argument
A premise of the Cartesian Dreaming Argument is the claim that dreams are phenomenologically indistinguishable from waking experiences. My thesis focuses on how the skeptic arrives at this claim, and I argue that the claim is inconsistent with the premises used to derive it. This inconsistency runs …
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Kant's Argument for Permanent Substance
I argue that Kant had good reason to claim that there must be permanent phenomenal substances. He needs to account for the possibility of representing reality that we are not now experiencing. He argues that only if substance is permanent can we represent the past. Permanent substance is, …
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Epictetus on speech: The argument
This thesis consists of a critical text, translation and running commentary on Epictetus II.23 which is entitled On the faculty of speech. In this diatribe, Epictetus discusses the proper role of speech, rhetoric and logic in the philosophical life. The commentary attempts to elucidate Epictetus' …
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Argument mining with informal text
… led to a wealth of user-generated text, rich in arguments and diverse in nature. However, the complexity of these informal arguments presents a challenge for argument mining. Argument mining is the task of automatically analysing arguments, such that the unstructured information contained in them …
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The Argument from Species Overlap
The "argument from species overlap" (abbreviated ASO) claims that some human and nonhuman animals possess similar sets of morally relevant characteristics, and are therefore similarly morally significant. The argument stands as a general challenge to moral theories, because many theories hold that …
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Argument Construction, Argument Evaluation, And Decision-Making: A Content Analysis Of Argumentation And Debate Textbooks
… processes. Previous studies have indicated that argumentation and debate instruction can improve critical thinking abilities, but there are reasons to believe that current approaches are not as effective at developing decision-making ability as they could be, in part because they focus too …
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Kant's criticism of the cosmological argument
… to examine Kant's criticism of the cosmological argument. Kant's general philosophical views are expounded and his reasons for the rejection of metaphysics are explained. In the course of the argument Kant's own analysis of the cosmological proof is discussed. He laid great stress on the fact …
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(implicit) Argument Introduction, Voice And Causatives
… syntactic and semantic properties of implicit arguments in various voice constructions, such as active and passive voice, applicatives, causatives and impersonals, using mainly Sason Arabic (SA) and Turkish as empirical starting points. I add to the typology of null arguments, further …
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An Empirical Study of Value Argument
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Argument licensing and agreement in Zulu
… and morphological case in Zulu provide a novel argument in favor of treating phi-agreement as a syntactic process. I also argue that Zulu has a novel type of morphological case: the augment vowel functions as a freely-applying case-licenser for nominal that lack structural case. The existence of …
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The argument from divine hiddenness : an assessment.
The argument from divine hiddenness against God's existence has become one of the most important atheistic arguments in the contemporary philosophical literature. In this dissertation I offer an assessment of this argument. Specifically, I provide some needed conceptual clarity to the discussion of …
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An Argument For A Neutral Free Logic
… abandons one of the most obviously valid argument forms in the history of the study of logic. The latter, despite its technical sophistication and apparent utility, mischaracterizes truth. Furthermore, I argue that the intuitions that recommend supervaluational semantics can be explained …
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Argument quality in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting
This thesis uses techniques and theory from argumentation, informal logic, and critical thinking to assess the quality of arguments presented by journalists in Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. Journalists strive to inform citizens about the way their world is, was, and will be. These claims about …
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