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Article 1740 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Is dialectical thought an "informal logic"?
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Date: 28 Nov 91 12:51:52 GMT
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jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

> In article <5RPRBB5w164w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM> rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richa
> >On the surface I can see an obvious reason why persons with an
> >interest in AI would tend to ignore the dialectic.  It can't be
> >easily formalized.  If you take an "argument" or a "discourse" as
> >your unit of analysis, it is not possible to write down formal
> >rules ...
> 
> It may surprise you, but discourse is a real growth area in
> AI right now.  (Or at least that's how it looks from Edinburgh.)

What journals does it appear in?  It was in part to find such
ongoing research enterprises that I started reading this
Newsgroup.

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