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Current Issues in Conductive Argument WeightIn Frans Hendrik van Eemeren & Bart Garssen (eds.), Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory: Twenty Exploratory Studies, Springer. pp. 127-142. 2012.
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Weighing Considerations in Conductive Pro and Con ArgumentsIn John Anthony Blair & Ralph H. Johnson (eds.), Conductive Argument: A New Type of Defeasible Reasoning, College Publications. pp. 86-103. 2011.
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49I will demonstrate that conductive arguments are found in the inference to the best explana-tion as it is used in science. Conductive arguments, I argue, operate on two levels: the first is in the con-struction of hypotheses; the second is through the competition of hypotheses. By constructing arguments based on observations of facts, all possible factors are taken into account and a judgment is made based on our weighing of considerations: conductive argumentation.
