From: Jay Levitt Date: 2005-11-18T10:42:18+09:00 Subject: Re: [ann] officeofgreatideas.com In article <5d99246a2e6896bb4820b45c352ab1df@yale.edu>, michael.schwab@yale.edu says... > The site is a simple front end for a database - the goal is to store > and organize information in ways that will allow people to make > structured arguments with a minimum of redundancy. Interesting! Have you thought about ways to structure counterarguments, subarguments, debatable points, conclusions, etc.? Maybe a way for readers to "rate" arguments as fallaci.. fall... as containing a fallacy? I remember doing some net-research on this a few months ago, and discovered that there was a whole field of structured debate research, but that the software involved was heavy, crufty, and too complex for people to actually use to debate topics. -- Jay Levitt | Wellesley, MA | I feel calm. I feel ready. I can only Faster: jay at jay dot fm | conclude that's because I don't have a http://www.jay.fm | full grasp of the situation. - Mark Adler