Categories of argument included science/health effects, economic, ideological, and governmental/implementation, and some claims were coded under more than one category.
The broad categories of argument were: (a) science and health effects, (b) economic, (c) ideological, and (d) government/procedural (see Additional file 1 for coding rules and samples of text included under each category).
And within that large category of arguments there is a further subdivision, about whether the methods of science can discover or distinguish that purpose.
If one accepts the deist view of God as a "watch maker" who sets the world ticking and then does not intervene, Hume's conclusion seems irrefutable.A second category of arguments against suicide is secular and involves, in one form or another, claims that we owe it to other people family, friends or society as a whole not to kill ourselves.
Into this category of argument falls appellants' contention that 'an inmate's rights with reference to social correspondence are something fundamentally different than those enjoyed by his free brother.' Brief for Appellants 19.
So it would be useful to have another category of argument, the "super-valid", which preserves high probability as well as certainty.
Mill divided the broad category of argument fallacies into two groups, those in which the evidence is distinctly conceived and those in which it is indistinctly conceived.
Among the many introductions, handbooks, toolkits and manifestos for participatory design methodologies are arguments and justifications for why participatory design is valuable – generally falling into the broad categories of pragmatic arguments (participatory design strategies lead to more successful results), or normative arguments (participatory design strategies are morally better).
