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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...

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...

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...

dialectical frameworks and beyond

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,...

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...