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(newest | oldest) View (newer 50 | older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)- 14:38, 18 September 2025 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Maps Concerning the Existence of God (Created page with "Arguments Concerning the Existence of God Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways of Proving the Existence of God The First Way The First Way with Objections The Second Way The Second Way with Objections The Third Way The Third Way with Objections The Fourth Way The Fourth Way with Objections The Fifth Way The Fifth Way with Objections All Five Ways All Five Ways with Objections William Lane Craig's "Kalam" Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God The Kalam Syllogism Craig's who...")
- 12:53, 15 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Map Library (Created page with "* [https://app.reasonspace.com/arguments/fda1ed72678c4770a4a928c0f6b68624 The Dog That Didn't Bark]")
- 19:19, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page How to build an argument map in ReasonSpace (Created page with "To build an argument map in ReasonSpace start out with a blank map. There is a button in the bottom left with a + sign in it. Pressing it will create a new proposition box and allow you to type text into it. When you select an existing proposition box, you'll see an '''edit control''' towards the bottom left of the screen that enables you to edit the text in the box and to connect it to other items in the map. Pressing the upward-pointing arrows in this control above...")
- 14:59, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Objections (Created page with "An objection is an argument that attacks another argument by seeking to undermine its inference or one of its premises. In https://app.reasonspace.com ReasonSpace objections are represented by red octagons. =Objections to premises= An objection to a premise aims to show that the premise is unfounded and therefore is of no value in establishing any further conclusion. An objection can show this either by showing that the premise is false, or else by showing that we...")
- 14:52, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Deductive fallacies (Redirected page to Deductive Fallacies) Tag: New redirect
- 14:49, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs moved page Immediate inferences to Immediate Inferences
- 14:47, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Deductive form (Created page with "A deductive inference necessitates its conclusion by having a certain ''form''. Deductive forms fall into three types: (1) Immediate Inferences (2) Aristotelian Syllogisms (3) Deductions Involving Complex Propositions")
- 14:37, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Modus Tollens (Redirected page to Http://reasonspace.s432.sureserver.com/Deductions Involving Complex Propositions#Modus Tollens) Tag: New redirect
- 13:41, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Deductions Involving Complex Propositions (Created page with "Some deductions involve ''complex propositions''. A complex proposition is a proposition that is made from simpler propositions combined with connectives like "and," "or," and "if... then." When discussing the form of such propositions, we use lowercase letters to represent the simple propositions. In this article we will cover arguments involving ''conditionals'' (complex propositions joined by "if... then..." and ''disjunctions'' (complex propositions joined by "or...")
- 11:07, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Barbara (Created page with "#REDIRECT http://reasonspace.s432.sureserver.com/Aristotelian_Syllogisms#Barbara")
- 10:55, 2 September 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Immediate inferences (Created page with "An immediate inference is an inference in which a single premise necessitates a conclusion. There are a few such forms of inference, listed below: =Converse= {{Map|https://app.reasonspace.com/smaps/9796b938f3fa4db2a4fb6648eef7e792}} =Obverse= {{Map|https://app.reasonspace.com/smaps/f648051cf96848c39c9ffc6442fba1a6}} =Contrapositive= {{Map|https://app.reasonspace.com/smaps/ae96763894f14dd9845acef41fa5f018}}")
- 17:22, 30 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs deleted page Deductive fallacies (content was: "=Undistributed Middle= =Affirming the Consequent= =Denying the Antecedent=", and the only contributor was "GSalmieri" (talk))
- 17:21, 30 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Deductive fallacies (Created page with "=Undistributed Middle= =Affirming the Consequent= =Denying the Antecedent=")
- 15:43, 30 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Focus view (Created page with "Focus view is a mode in app.reasonspace.com ReasonSpace that displays only a single argument at a time. You can activate or deactivate it from the view menu near the top-left of the screen.")
- 17:46, 29 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Non sequitur (Created page with "A non sequitur is an inference in which the premises and conclusion are not sufficiently interrelated for the premises to offer any support at all for the conclusion.")
- 16:32, 29 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Equivocation (Created page with "...")
- 17:01, 28 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Fallacies (Created page with "Partial List of Logical Fallacies: Equivocation Single Culprit Fallacy")
- 17:00, 28 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Single Culprit Fallacy (Created page with "{{Map|https://app.reasonspace.com/arguments/4efb15d472cb439d919b18d63f3bfe1e}}")
- 16:50, 28 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Deductive Fallacies (Created page with "There are some forms or arguemnt that look like deductions, but which are not. Here are the three most common invalid argument forms (or “deductive fallacies”): {| class="wikitable" | Map 34-35: |- |[https://app.reasonspace.com/maps/1478?token=41804760-1661-42e4-9c4c-c0628a7f964e https://app.reasonspace.com/arguments/1046/export?token=12edaa53-06b9-487d-8dd6-1b2d428e57f5&target=active&dpi=100&view=true&format=.png] |} {| class="wikitable" | Map 36-37: |- |[https:/...")
- 16:48, 28 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Deductions Involving Conditionals (Created page with " {| class="wikitable" | Map 32-33: |- |[https://app.reasonspace.com/maps/1478?token=41804760-1661-42e4-9c4c-c0628a7f964e https://app.reasonspace.com/arguments/1049/export?token=858f60a9-6ede-4af0-8abd-7275bcf8be56&target=active&dpi=100&view=true&format=.png] |} These argument forms involve complex propositions that are built up from simpler ones. When representing the arguments symbolically, we use lowercase letters to represent the simpler propositions. Thanks to Ari...")
- 16:47, 28 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Aristotelian Syllogisms (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" |'''The Barbara Syllogism''' |- |{{Map|https://app.reasonspace.com/arguments/916b58e1-07e7-484c-adf9-2cb8897c1eb7}} |} Let’s focus on the first of these examples. Notice that it is not because of anything special about the subject matter that the premises necessitate the conclusion. If we changed the argument to be about Volkswagens, cars, and Jettas, rather than birds, animals, and parrots, the premises would still necessitate the conclusion. Th...")
- 13:58, 28 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Compelling (Created page with "An inference is compelling if it is such that knowing its premises to be true would put one in a position to ''know'' that its conclusion is true. All deductions are compelling arguments. But (arguably) so are some non-deductive arguments.")
- 13:39, 28 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Non-sequitur (Created page with "A non-sequitur is an inference in which the premises, even if true, offer no support at all for the conclusion. Here are some examples of non-sequiturs. {{https://app.reasonspace.com/arguments/35d1e52577044b138ef928ac79749a41}} {{Map|https://app.reasonspace.com/maps/3c6b4d76-04ff-4219-8a2e-3e7b7c468e40}} {{https://app.reasonspace.com/arguments/4efb15d472cb439d919b18d63f3bfe1e}}")
- 23:36, 26 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page File:Strength of an Argument.png
- 23:36, 26 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs uploaded File:Strength of an Argument.png
- 21:23, 26 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page File:Map 9 Annotated.png
- 21:23, 26 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs uploaded File:Map 9 Annotated.png
- 18:54, 26 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs changed group membership for Stevenwarden from (none) to administrator, interface administrator, bureaucrat, suppressor and editor
- 11:39, 23 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Argument Map (Created page with "Place Holder")
- 11:38, 23 August 2024 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Argumentmapping (Created page with "test")
- 16:17, 1 September 2023 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Sherlock Holmes (Created page with "In the following passage, from Arthur Conan Doyal's ''The Sign of Four'', Sherlock Holmes makes a number of inferences based on his inspection of a watch handed to him by his friend John Watson: {{bq}}I handed [Sherlock Holmes] over the watch with some slight feeling of amusement in my heart, for the test was, as I thought, an impossible one, and I intended it as a lesson against the somewhat dogmatic tone which he occasionally assumed. He balanced the watch in his han...")
- 13:00, 29 August 2023 GSalmieri talk contribs uploaded a new version of File:Three Scales.jpg
- 12:04, 25 August 2023 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Inference (Created page with "# REDIRECT Arguments#Strength_of_Inferences")
- 20:10, 24 August 2023 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Uses of argument (Created page with "If you were trying to convince someone, perhaps a jury, of Natalie’s guilt, you might present them with the argument we discussed in the last section. Or, you might formulate this argument silently to yourself in the course of trying to figure out who killed Carl. In either case, we would say that you ''inferred'' that Natalie was Carl’s murderer from the ''premises'' that the murderer had access to the rose garden at midnight and that only Natalie had such access....")
- 20:49, 14 August 2023 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Implicit premise (Created page with "You may have noticed that there’s something unnatural about the three sentences we looked at above, expressing the argument that alcohol should be illegal. It is unlikely that anyone making this argument would state it so longwindedly. More likely he’d simply say: (iv) “Alcohol should be illegal because it’s a drug” or perhaps (v) “Alcohol should be illegal because all drugs should be.” Both of these ways of stating the argument omit one of the premises. Pe...")
- 16:58, 19 June 2023 GSalmieri talk contribs changed group membership for Ali.m1 from editor and administrator to editor, administrator and interface administrator
- 16:58, 19 June 2023 GSalmieri talk contribs changed group membership for Ali.m1 from (none) to administrator and editor
- 21:42, 5 September 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Inference to the best explanation (Created page with "#Redirect [Inference to the best explanation]")
- 17:13, 26 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Inferential Particles (Created page with "{| class="wikitable" |Used to introduce conclusions: * so * therefore * thus * hence * consequently * in conclusion * it must be that * then |Used to introduce premises: • because • since • for • surely • certainly • no doubt • assuming that • given that |}")
- 17:09, 26 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Unfounded (Redirected page to Epistemic status#Unfounded propositions) Tag: New redirect
- 17:08, 26 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Possible (Redirected page to Epistemic status#Possibility) Tag: New redirect
- 17:08, 26 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Probable (Redirected page to Epistemic status#Probability) Tag: New redirect
- 17:07, 26 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Certain (Redirected page to Epistemic status#certainty) Tag: New redirect
- 05:17, 25 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Types of inferences (Created page with "Among the types of inference are: -Deduction -Arguments Applying Statistics -Induction -Statistical Generalization -Inference to the Best Explanation -Analogical Argument -Reductio ad Absurdum")
- 05:15, 25 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Generalizations (Created page with "#REDIRECET Induction")
- 05:12, 25 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page File:Epistemic status explanations.png
- 05:12, 25 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs uploaded File:Epistemic status explanations.png
- 04:59, 25 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Epistemic status (Created page with "thumb|right|600px In evaluating arguments, it is necessary to determine the epistemic status of each premise—where it falls along the scale running from ignorance to knowledge. In some unusual cases we might be able to specify this to such a fine degree of resolution that we can assign a number to it, and different scales have been devised for assigning such numbers. In most cases, however, this is not possible, and we distinguish epist...")
- 04:58, 25 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Circular reasoning (Redirected page to The Structure of Knowledge and the Danger of Circular Reasoning) Tag: New redirect
- 04:50, 25 August 2022 GSalmieri talk contribs created page Deductions (Created page with "Deduction is the strongest type of inference—the type in which it is impossible for the conclusion to be false when the premises are true. This is sometimes expressed by saying that, in a deduction, the premises ''necessitate'' the conclusion or that the conclusion ''follows necessarily'' from them. It is this feature of necessitation that Aristotle, the first logician, focused on when defining deduction.10 We will discuss shortly what it is about the premises of dedu...")