Karl Popper famously opposed Marxism in general and its philosophical core – the Marxist dialectic – in particular. As a progressive thinker, Popper saw in dialectic a source of dogmatism damaging to philosophy and political theory. Popper had summarized his views on dialectic in an article that was first delivered in 1937 and subsequently republished as a chapter of his book (2002, pp. 419-451...

In 1998, forty years after the original edition of The New Rhetoric (Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca, 1958), Douglas Walton published The New Dialectic. The title confirmed the dialectical turn of argumentation theory, taken long before. Both titles refer to old versions of practices and theories, a new dialectic presupposing an old dialectic as much as a new rhetoric presupposes an old rhetoric....

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...

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...

We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it tightly integrates and yet clearly marks off of one another the two most important aspects of local search algorithms, search space exploration and exploitation. We believe that this makes dialectic search easy to use ...

Herding behavior in group (collaborative) decision making has been studied purely as imitation of others and discounting own information. However, collaboration is a dynamic process and decision making should be viewed with this dynamic in mind. Drawing on the "The Laws of Imitation" from sociology, we offer a new perspective to understand herding behavior in group decision making. By acknowled...

attend. Gilad Zlotkin (Hebrew University), Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware), Gerhard Brewka (University of Vienna, Austria), Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Anne Gardner, L. Thorne McCarty (Rutgers University), and Kevin Ashley (Pitt) also contributed their intellectual weight to the proceedings. At issue were the following ideas: (1) dialectic has something to do wit...

g n, arguing that it is organized as a dialectic of opposite cognitive modes, dialectic of gesture imagery and language. This dialectic is the key to the evocatio organization, and ultimate execution of meaningful actions shaped to take linguisti in discourse – imagery, as embodied in the gestures that accompany speech, and the categorical-sequential thinking of speech itself. Both modes are es...

A classic psycholinguistic problem is parole; in its modern formulation, performance . This paper looks at aspects of parole or performance from a new direction, arguing that it is organized as a dialectic of unlike cognitive modes, a dialectic of gesture imagery and language. This dialectic is the key to the evocation, organization, and ultimate execution of meaningful actions shaped to take l...

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