Real arguments are a mixture of fuzzy linguistic variables and ontological knowledge. This paper focuses on modelling imprecise arguments in order to obtain a better interleaving of human and software agents argumentation, which might be proved useful for extending the number of real life argumentative-based applications. We propose Fuzzy Description Logic as the adequate technical instrumentat...

The argument from ignorance is a hard type of argumentation to evaluate using the profile of dialogue as a tool, because parts of the argumentation are responses that do not occur in the sequence of exchanges. The argument from ignorance works as an inference because implications are drawn from what was not said. This feature poses a difficulty for the profile of dialogue method. And in fact, w...

A considerable body of experimental and theoretical work claims the existence of negative absolute temperatures in spin systems and ultra-cold quantum gases. Here, we clarify that such findings can be attributed to the use of a popular yet inconsistent entropy definition, which violates fundamental thermodynamic relations and fails to produce sensible results for simple analytically tractable c...

a concept of weak $f$-property for a set-valued mapping is introduced‎, ‎and then under some suitable assumptions‎, ‎which do not involve any information‎ ‎about the solution set‎, ‎the lower semicontinuity of the solution mapping to‎ ‎the parametric‎ ‎set-valued vector equilibrium-like problems are derived by using a density result and scalarization method‎, ‎where the‎ ‎constraint set $k$...

this chief aim of this paper is to explore the concept of funds of knowledge (fok) in relation to cultural historical activity theory (chat). this study unveils the basic tenets of fok from the lens of activity theory and analyzes pertinent discoveries, key concepts, and scholars’ arguments relating to fok and literacy development over time. the major purpose of this study is to expand the pers...

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen or indomethacin are commonly prescribed drugs to induce pharmacologic closure of a patent ductus arteriosus in preterm neonates. Based on a recently published Cochrane meta-analysis, both drugs are equally effective to induce closure. Drug choice can therefore be based on differences in side effects or pharmaco-economic arguments. The current...

This paper argues for a reinterpretation of Aristotle’s concept of an enthymeme and also his wider informal logic in terms of arguments that are defeasible. They are represented by forms of argument that are called argumentation schemes, considered to be similar to forms of argument found in deductive logic, but different from the foregoing in virtue of their being defeasible. Indeed, the most ...