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To assess an argument, you must assess its inference and all its premises. ReasonSpace walks you through the process of assessing arguments on a map. When you're looking at a published map, there will be a button to assess it in the upper right corner of the screen. | To assess an argument, you must assess its inference and all its premises. ReasonSpace walks you through the process of assessing arguments on a map. When you're looking at a published map, there will be a button to assess it in the upper right corner of the screen. | ||
When you're in assessment mode, you'll see an area on the | When you're in assessment mode, you'll see an area on the right of the screen displaying assessment scales for all the items on the map. On the left side you'll see a control that lets you edit the assessment of the selected item. Select each item in the map (working from bottom to top) and fill in your assessment of it. By placing a slider along the assessment scale. (You can also fill in an explanation for your assessment.) | ||
Assess each premise according to its [[epistemic status]], and assess each inference according to its strength—i.e. how strongly it would support their conclusions ''if all of their premises were certain''. | The assessment control also contains arrow buttons that will step you through the remaining items to be assessed items in order. On that same control, there is a button that toggled on "Focus Mode." In focus mode, you only see those elements of the map that are directly relevant to the evaluation of the selected item. This can be useful especially when assessing a complex map, where on cannot see all the elements at once. | ||
Assess each premise according to its [[epistemic status]], and assess each [[inference]] according to its strength—i.e. how strongly it would support their conclusions ''if all of their premises were certain''. | |||
Once all the premises and the inference for a given argument have been assessed, the system will calculate a strength for the argument as a whole, and if this is the only argument for its conclusion it will determine the epistemic status of the conclusion accordingly. | Once all the premises and the inference for a given argument have been assessed, the system will calculate a strength for the argument as a whole, and if this is the only argument for its conclusion it will determine the epistemic status of the conclusion accordingly. | ||
Revision as of 12:02, 25 August 2023
To assess an argument, you must assess its inference and all its premises. ReasonSpace walks you through the process of assessing arguments on a map. When you're looking at a published map, there will be a button to assess it in the upper right corner of the screen.
When you're in assessment mode, you'll see an area on the right of the screen displaying assessment scales for all the items on the map. On the left side you'll see a control that lets you edit the assessment of the selected item. Select each item in the map (working from bottom to top) and fill in your assessment of it. By placing a slider along the assessment scale. (You can also fill in an explanation for your assessment.)
The assessment control also contains arrow buttons that will step you through the remaining items to be assessed items in order. On that same control, there is a button that toggled on "Focus Mode." In focus mode, you only see those elements of the map that are directly relevant to the evaluation of the selected item. This can be useful especially when assessing a complex map, where on cannot see all the elements at once.
Assess each premise according to its epistemic status, and assess each inference according to its strength—i.e. how strongly it would support their conclusions if all of their premises were certain.
Once all the premises and the inference for a given argument have been assessed, the system will calculate a strength for the argument as a whole, and if this is the only argument for its conclusion it will determine the epistemic status of the conclusion accordingly.
If there are multiple arguments for a conclusion, the system will set the conclusion to the strength of the strongest argument for it. You still have the option to set the strength higher, because sometimes the strength of multiple arguments can compound to yield a stronger overall case for a conclusion than any one argument does alone. (You'll have to use your judgment to determine whether this is so in any particular case.)
Objections and Counterarguments
Objections and counterarguments have the effect of putting an upper limit on the assessment of the items to which they point. The stronger the objection or counter-argument is, the lower the upper limit is.