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Argumentation theory, or argumentation, embraces the arts and sciences of civil debate, dialogue, conversation, and persuasion; studying rules of inference, logic, and procedural rules in both artificial and real world settings. Argumentation is concerned primarily with reaching conclusions through logical reasoning, that is, claims based on premises ...

Argunet

Argunet is an open platform for creating, sharing and presenting argument maps.

Computational Linguistics

Argument connectivity will involve a mixture of computer automation and human input. Computational Linguistics provides a field of study with possibilities to automate the connection, relevancy, and supportive direction of arguments.

Crowdsourcing

The relevancy gauge provide an appealing method for the reader to influence argument connectivity. Luis von Ahn, the inventor of Captcha describes how he added a second term to the password phrase for the purpose of automating the OCR of deteriorating paper documents in the PBS Nova Science Now episode 401.

The do good relevancy gauge is a form of crowdsourcing for measuring argument connectivity

Debategraph

Debategraph's goal is to make the best arguments on all sides of any public debate freely available to all and continuously open to challenge and improvement by all.

Debatewise

Debatewise encourages the best minds to collaborate and form the definitive argument for their position, ones views are placed side-by-side with their opponent's. Voting mechanisms are provided so everyone can see who's winning the debate.

Fearless Change

An argument is a prescribed resolution to a problem put forth by an individual or like thinking group with the desire to push the idea in a specified direction. Implementing a suggestion involves convincing or changing the mindset of the customer or recipient. The book Fearless Change utilize the Design Pattern language defined by Christopher Alexander to identify complex concepts to advance change.

Freakanomics

Freakonomics is a very interesting read which illustrates the connection to what many would consider disjoint arguments.

Global Sensemaking

Global Sensemaking (GSm) is a group of people interested in helping humanity address complex, interrelated global problems—such as climate change, energy policy, poverty, and food security—by developing and applying new web-based technology to assist collaborative decision making and cooperative problem solving.

Ideological Hegemony

Thought Control in American Society

The author of this essay brings a well researched and radical perspective of the commercial and poltical influence steering the American discussion. Conspiracy or not, you are unlikely to see this type of essay published or discussed in a corporate sponsored media. Freedom of speech is not freedom to be heard. It is this type of essay which lacks the visibility to be heard. The Do Good Gauge will provide an opportunity for the populace to develop their own points of view, thus producing a wider perspective of the truth.

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing they way people work together. This first-of-its-kind research effort draws on the strengths of many diverse organizations across the Institute including; the MIT Media Lab, the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the MIT Sloan School of Management.

The public sphere is an area in social life where people can get together and freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action. It is "a discursive space in which individuals and groups congregate to discuss matters of mutual interest and, where possible, to reach a common judgment." The public sphere can be seen as "a theater in modern societies in which political participation is enacted through the medium of talk" and "a realm of social life in which public opinion can be formed".

Revolution in Common Sense or Quantum MetaPhysics

By Joachim E. Wolf

Our common sense is not a reliable basis for correct judgments. There is no common sense on which all people agree. With time, major shifts occur in what people believe to be true, resulting in revolutionary changes in society.

Stephen Toulmin

In Reason in Ethics (1950), his doctoral dissertation, Toulmin sets out a Good Reasons approach of ethics, and criticizes the subjectivism and emotivism of philosophers who fails to do justice to ethical reasoning.

Synergetics, Tensegrity (Buckminster Fuller)

From Wikepedia

Tensegrity is a portmanteau of tensional integrity. It refers to structures with an integrity based on a synergy between balanced tension and compression components.

In 1981 at age 85 Buckminster Fuller published his book called, Critical Path. Fullers vision for utilizing technology for social improvement was years ahead of the time. In perspective, 1981 was the birth year of the personal computer.

It is sad to say that 26 years after Fuller's death, computer technologies has not progressed much in the realm of argument theory. The Do Good Gauge is an attempt to extend Bucky's ideas.

Transdisciplinarity

From Wikipedia

"Transdisciplinarity connotes a research strategy that crosses many disciplinary boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on problems that cross the boundaries of two or more disciplines, such as research on effective information systems for biomedical research (see bioinformatics), and can refer to concepts or methods that were originally developed by one discipline, but are now used by several others, such as ethnography, a field research method originally developed in anthropology but now widely used by other disciplines."

"Transdisciplinarity is also used to signify a unity of knowledge beyond disciplines" -- Nicolescu 20