Although empirical issues surround the when, how, and who questions of New World colonization, much of current debate hinges on theoretical problems because it has become clear that our understanding of NewWorld colonization is not resolute. In fact, the central issues of debate have remained essentially unchanged for the last eighty years. The now classic and probably incorrect story of NewWor...

Editors' Note: The following is Professor Harrison's response to Professor Evelyn Pluhar's article "Arguing Away Suffering: The Neo-Cartesian Revival," which appeared in the preceding number of Between the Species. Professor Pluhar's reply follows. Several corrections of errors, for which the editors are responsible, are to be made to "Arguing Away Suffering." See ''Errata'' on page 92 of this ...

the research argues that the ending divine attributes of the quranic verses are related semantically to the verses’ theme. according to the content of the quranic verses, supported by some commentators, the ending divine attributes of the verses have such a deep semantic relationship with the verse content that if we abandon the ending attributes, some disorder is made in the verse theme. this ...

Abstract Expertise, authority, and testimony refer to aspects of one the most important elements communication cognition. Argumentation theory recognises various forms what we call argumentum ad alia pattern, in which speakers appeal others have said, including Position Know scheme, Witness Testimony Expert Opinion scheme classical verecundiam . In this paper show that involves more than merely...

We develop a qualitative model of decision making with two aims: to describe how peo­ ple make simple decisions and to enable com­ puter programs to do the same. Current ap­ proaches based on Planning or Decision The­ ory either ignore uncertainty and tradeoffs, or provide languages and algorithms that are too complex for this task. The proposed model provides a language based on rules, a seman...

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The spread of advanced information technologies introduced a broader conception of identity, which now includes the representation of people in the virtual environment. As a result, today we can see that identity can be defined both in technology and sociology-oriented terms. Different organisations assign identities to the individuals they interact with and manage them by means of technical so...

There has recently been many proposals to adopt an argumentative approach to decision-making. As the underlying assumptions made in these different approaches are not always clearly stated, we review these works, taking a more classical decision theory perspective, more precisely a multicriteria perspective. It appears that these approaches seem to have much to offer to decision models, because...