Rehabilitating AI: Argument loci and the case for artificial intelligence

Argumentation

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 149-170

  Warnick, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Albert R. Jonsen; Argument structure; Casuistry; Chaim Perelman; Loci of argument; Lucie Olbrechts Tyteca; Refutation; Rhetoric of technology; Stephen Toulmin; Value hierarchy

Indexed keywords

EID: 42549130303     PISSN: 0920427X     EISSN: 15728374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ARGU.0000024023.55226.59     Document Type: Article

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