FONTAINE , Matthieu

The negative particles lā/ 'al in Ugaritic change from positive to negative in modal contexts, conditional, questions, disjunctions, etc. They have usually been studied from a Semitic and linguistic points of view. On the basis of their occurrence in Ugaritic texts, we pretend to explain their uncommon behaviour from a philosophical and...

Most of the standard approaches consider abduction in terms of a backward reasoning and miss some of its fundamental features. Overall, they neglect its pragmatic dimension and the conjectural aspect of the conclusion. In this paper, we approach abduction in terms of strategic adjustment process in the context of dialogical logic. This sheds...

La corrección de un razonamiento se define normalmente en términos de validez deductiva o fuerza inductiva. Estos aportan estándares altos de precisión, pero son voraces en recursos cognitivos y esto los hace inapropiados para las situaciones de emergencia. El razonamiento médico en situaciones de emergencia debe basarse en un equilibrio entre...

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This chapter advocates for a reconciliation of argumentation theory and formal logic in an agent-centered theory of reasoning, that is, a theory in which inferences are studied as human activities. First, arguments in favor of a divorce between the two fields are presented. Those arguments are not so controversial. However, rather than forcing...