Arguing from Definition to Verbal Classification: The Case of Redefining 'Planet' to Exclude Pluto
The recent redefinition of 'planet' that excludes Pluto as a planet led to controversy that provides a case study of how competing scientific definitions can be supported by characteristic types of evidence. An argumentation scheme from Hastings is used to analyze argument from verbal clas...
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| description | The recent redefinition of 'planet' that excludes Pluto as a planet led to controversy that provides a case study of how competing scientific definitions can be supported by characteristic types of evidence. An argumentation scheme from Hastings is used to analyze argument from verbal classification as a form of inference used in rational argumentation. The Toulmin-style format is compared to more recently developed ways of modeling such cases that stem from advances in argumentation technology in artificial intelligence. Using
these tools, it is shown how argumentation schemes, in particular
argument from verbal classification and argument from definition to verbal classification, apply to cases of scientific argumentation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-988b462c6f99465499c035dde27622512022-12-22T01:39:06ZengUniversity of WindsorInformal Logic0824-25772293-734X2008-06-0128210.22329/il.v28i2.550Arguing from Definition to Verbal Classification: The Case of Redefining 'Planet' to Exclude PlutoDouglas WaltonThe recent redefinition of 'planet' that excludes Pluto as a planet led to controversy that provides a case study of how competing scientific definitions can be supported by characteristic types of evidence. An argumentation scheme from Hastings is used to analyze argument from verbal classification as a form of inference used in rational argumentation. The Toulmin-style format is compared to more recently developed ways of modeling such cases that stem from advances in argumentation technology in artificial intelligence. Using these tools, it is shown how argumentation schemes, in particular argument from verbal classification and argument from definition to verbal classification, apply to cases of scientific argumentation.https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/550scientific definitionclassificationdecisions about definitionscompeting definitionsargumentation schemesarguments based on classifications |
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| title | Arguing from Definition to Verbal Classification: The Case of Redefining 'Planet' to Exclude Pluto |
| title_full | Arguing from Definition to Verbal Classification: The Case of Redefining 'Planet' to Exclude Pluto |
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| title_short | Arguing from Definition to Verbal Classification: The Case of Redefining 'Planet' to Exclude Pluto |
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