Systems of argumentation or ’computational dialectic’ are emerging as a powerful means of structuring inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. Individual systems of computational dialectic have been suggested and implemented to tackle specific problems but no comprehensive and comparative assessment has been made of such systems. This paper introduces ScenarioGC0, a framework for the i...

Aristotle’s vigorous vindication of rhetoric pairs it with dialectic. Dialectic, for Aristotle, combines logical propositions with induction from rigorous evidence in an effort to prove a case beyond doubt. Rhetoric parallels dialectic, but combines arguments with examples in an effort to persuade. Neither one amounts to science, which for Aristotle requires irrefutable establishment of general...

Question 3: The fourth Thesi s on Peuerbach concerns itsel f with, among other matters, the nature of dialectic understanding. A proper dialectic understanding addresses itself to the immanent contradictions in the real concrete, rather than merely the contradictions between this real concrete and its ideological manisfestations -such as religion. Yes, the self as part of the system of religion...

A concept for the solution of problems at the digital processor has been developed, which is based on a four level approach of attacking a problem. It concerns the abstract, concrete, active and heuristic level of problem solution. Dialectic pairs of notions have to be defined, in order to specify separation and connection relations at each level and from level to level. The precise reference s...

‘A is A, and yet A is not A; therefore A is A’.1 This common inference within the logic of soku is based on the dialectical form ‘A soku not-A’, variously translated as ‘A sive not-A’, ‘A qua not-A’, and ‘A and yet not-A’, and is hereafter referred to as the soku dialectic. Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime, and Nishitani Keiji, the central philosophers of the Kyoto school, grant the legitimacy of ...