The Internet is teeming with crazies, jerks, and blowhards; and in online forums, debaters are full of passionate intensity. Peruse the comments area on any popular blog, and you’ll find more ...

Less than a decade ago, the analysis of human discourse to identify the ways in which evidence is adduced to support conclusions — a process now known as argument mining 2 — was firmly beyond the ...

The Slippery Slope Argument is an argument that concludes that if an action is taken, other negative consequences will follow. For example, “If event X were to occur, then event Y would (eventually) ...