start with an argument scheme or template

[MichaelHoffmann]

On maps, on the first screen you see after "create a map" there should also be the option in yellow:

"or do you want to start with an argument scheme or an argument template?" (Modify in translation.xml called "OrStartWithScheme").

The building of logical argument schemes has been realized in 3.8. An older version is described in issue #61. Only "conditional syllogism" (see below) should still be added as an option.

Templates: Click on a particular argument template opens the map that is listed below. These maps are all in Argument theory / Argument schemes. Please note that often the same template is listed below under different template-names

[First Click leads to the following menu:]

Logical argument schemes:

• Modus ponens
• Modus tollens
• Disjunctive syllogism
• Not-all syllogism
• Conditional syllogism

Argument templates, organized by:

• Focus and sources
• Argumentative moves

[Click on "+ Focus and sources" opens the following underneath "Focus"] Argument templates, organized by:

• Focus and sources
• Arguments for actions (that something should be done / not be done = normative conclusion)
  • Legal arguments:
  • Analogical following of a precedent (based on Verheij, 2008)
  • Application of legislation (based on Verheij, 2008)
  • Ethical arguments:
  • based on greatest benefit (utilitarian)
  • based on duties or rights (deontological)
  • based on a connection of utilitarian and deontological arguments
  • Practical arguments
  • Practical inference, referring to goals
  • from popular practice
  • from analogy to do something specific
  • from analogy to not do something
  • planning argument
  • argument from consequences
  • slippery slope
• Arguments for knowledge claims (that something is the case = descriptive conclusion)
  • Abduction
  • Argument from analogy (use map "analogy" as template)
  • Argument from example
  • Argument from cause to effect
  • Argument from verbal classification
  • Argument from generic composition
  • Arguments from position to know
  • Argument from expert opinion
  • Argument from position to know
  • Argument from witness testimony
  • Inference to the best explanation
  • Reductio ad absurdum
  • Transcendental argument (inferring the condition of the possibility of something)

[Click on "2. Argumentative moves" opens the following underneath "2. Argumentative moves"]

2. Argumentative moves
   • Abduction
   • Analogy
   • Induction
   • Inference to the best explanation
   • Planning argument
   • Slippery slope
   • Reductio ad absurdum
   • Transcendental argument (inferring the condition of the possibility of something)

Old descriptions: see also on Screen IV (only schemes, not templates) of the cmap "structures of AGORA categories" at http://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1KLP436LD-1MSPVS-ZFS/structure-of-AGORA-categories.cmap user name agora password 2011

• Functionality of the button "Use a template to create an argument map" that appears on Screens I, II, and III. Click opens Screen IV at http://cmapspublic3.ihmc.us/rid=1KLP436LD-1MSPVS-ZFS/structure-of-AGORA-categories.cmap.

[MichaelHoffmann]

Problems of creating a typology of argument templates:

• there are certain argumentative moves (abduction, induction, analogy, example, slippery slope)
• there are certain argumentative foci (actions, entities)
• there are certain sources of argumentative moves (experts, examples)