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).
Controlled contrast — two cases alike except in one factor differ in outcome, so the factor matters (the method of difference). Critical questions: is everything said to be held fixed really fixed? Does changing the factor change anything else? Is the case realistic, or only coherent?.
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARG-005 | The reluctant writer’s precommitment device changes what they do without changing what they want, so the conditions of efficacy govern which regime acts | The individual-scale line of support for CLAIM-027 (Sections 1, 3.5), independent of Northstar: it does not rest on the supposition that a firm is an agent. | Proposed |
| ARG-009 | Northstar-A and Northstar-B differ only in escalation authority and act differently, so escalation authority helps govern efficacy | The institutional line of support for CLAIM-027 (Sections 5.1–5.2), an interventionist contrast (THEORY-138). Conditional on the supposed agent. Two of its critical questions are unanswered. | Proposed |
| ARG-050 | An intervention that disables a production pathway inside a declared boundary, or interrupts an outside controller, locates the producer of a maintained organization, because the pathway causes the capacities with a delay and can be intervened on surgically, so the fat-handedness of interventions on wholes does not reach the inference | Filed on reading the fat-handedness debate after Craver (Baumgartner & Gebharter 2016, Baumgartner & Casini 2017, Baumgartner, Casini & Krickel 2020). The doubt: since every intervention on a whole also acts on its parts along another path, intervention data cannot show what a whole consists in, so they might not show where maintenance is realized either. Answered: CLAIM-522’s interventions act on diachronic causes, not on a whole and its parts at a time, so the inference holds. Its weakest step is the boundary, which the inference takes as declared and no intervention supplies. | Active |