Argument forms — The form of inference an ARG makes, and with it the critical questions that inference has to survive (Walton’s argumentation schemes). An ARG answers each question in its body or is objected to (ADR-032).
Best explanation — this account explains the evidence better than its rivals. Critical questions: which rivals were considered? Does a rival explain as well? Would more evidence discriminate them?.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARG-029 | The operational account, kept as a rule of method, supports a realist kind that can outrun observation as the bearer of communicative identity | Between A203 and A218 the bearer of communicative identity moved from an equivalence class defined on observed responses to a structural kind that may be “real while remaining indistinguishable” under the probes. CLAIM-142 names the step in one sentence, method kept and object changed. Proposed: no turn argues for the kind, and the exchange itself concedes that a traditional ontology “might reproduce the same statistical predictions”. | Proposed |