And now also Stephen Toulmin has died … See this in memoriam and this one.) In 2009 we have lost two groundbreaking thinkers about defeasible argumentation (see the post on John Pollock).
His 1958 argument model has influenced many AI researchers (and others) although often indirectly (see e.g. this text). For me his much more recent Return to reason was also very stimulating.
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Tags: argumentation, law, logic
