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The Great Devonian Controversy

An illustrative analysis

The Great Devonian Controversy was sparked, in the mid 1830s, by a disagreement amongst British geologists about how to interpret and date certain types of rocks (Greywacke) in Devon. Roughly a decade later, it culminated in the postulation and broad acceptance of a novel geological period, the Devonian, that separates the earlier Silurian and the later Carboniferous periods. The Great Devonian...

editors: betz

last update: Aug 10, 2010

created: Aug 10, 2010

language: English

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ArgII-Gruppe16-Taylor

Die Ethik der Achtung für die Natur

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editors: rebekkar jayjo

last update: Jul 20, 2010

created: Jul 20, 2010

language: English

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versioSimon

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editors: PhilLogGrup2

last update: Jul 6, 2010

created: Jul 6, 2010

language: English

ArgII-Gruppe02-Wittgenstein

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editors: felima johannag PhilLogGrup2 thanadul J.G.

last update: Jun 21, 2010

created: May 6, 2010

language: German

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Wittgensteins Privatsprachen. Dreiner, Mergenthaler, Gilleßen, Ammann

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editors: mox Lunaycielo Dreiner maxmc

last update: Jun 11, 2010

created: Jun 20, 2009

language: German

Spekulation verbieten!

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editors: ragro

last update: May 31, 2010

created: May 31, 2010

language: German

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Chancen und Risiken von Organic Computing

Diese Argumentlandkarten wurden im Rahmen der BMBF-Studie "Selbstorganisierende adaptive Systeme: Chancen, Risiken und Gestaltungsansätze von Organic Computing" erstellt. Analysiert werden die Argumente für und wider den Einsatz von selbstorganisierenden Systemen. Die Argumente wurden aus Experteninterviews, Fachtexten und auf einem Projektworkshop gewonnen. Im Zentrum der Debatte steht die...

editors: cvoigt

last update: May 16, 2010

created: Feb 27, 2010

language: German

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Stay or go

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editors: nmalonis

last update: Mar 7, 2010

created: Mar 7, 2010

language: English

Software Patente Beispieldialog

Kurze Beispieldebatte, die anhand eines kleinen alltagssprachlichen Dialogs über Softwarepatente demonstriert, wie Argumente in natürlichsprachlichen Diskursen häufig nur komprimiert, implizit oder angedeutet auftreten, und wie die logische Argumentationsanalyse diese Argumente "entpackt", expliziert und präzisiert....

editors: cvoigt

last update: Feb 27, 2010

created: Feb 25, 2010

language: German

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Twitter

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editors: mimeha

last update: Oct 20, 2009

created: Oct 20, 2009

language: German

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Recent Blog Entries

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    The latest version of Argunet features new tools that make it easier to organize the debates and to search through debates located on the Argunet-server or on your computer. To help you organize your work you can label the debates using private and non private tags and search for existing debates using a search-engine. The label-feature [...]

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