Pseudonyms are used to protect the identities and privacy of participants, taking liberty with ethnographic facts, in order to disguise identities, doing all to retain contexts and arguments.
This is a fair question to put, but it has to be qualified by its context and the argument in this latest conflated cocktail of confidentiality, copyright and privacy ignores the most salient point - can privately expressed thoughts be deemed to be political controversy deserving of public exposure?
Every quote is taken out of context and the arguments make no sense at all – not that that stops anyone.
If the authors have evidence that embryo sex is not important in this context, evidence and arguments need to be presented (see also comment 10 below).
Historical evidence suggests that a divide between Eastern and Occidental thinking has existed at least since ancient times, a tradition of adversarial debate, formal logical argument and analytic deduction flowering in Greece, while in China an appreciation for context and complexity, dialectical argument and a tolerance for the "yin and yang" of life flourished.
On the other side, it is acknowledged that there are limits to mathematical formalisation of evidential reasoning in law (Franklin 2012: 238 9) and that context, argument and judgment do play a role in identifying the reference class (Nance 2007b).
While teachers should be able to determine the factual accuracy of their students' presentation, the Meograph Rubric is designed to help them understand how proficient students were at, say, adding and introduction, thesis, context, supporting arguments, and the quality of audio, images, video and so on.
The latter include fallacies; argument schemes; the rhetorical features of argument; dialectical obligations; dialogue theory; kinds of argument (deductive, inductive, conductive); the role of images and diagrams in argument; empirical studies of argument; communication in argumentative contexts; and the history of argument analysis.
Thanks to Sean Wilentz (The Way We Live Now, March 7) for the historical context and the well-reasoned argument that Ralph Nader's most striking achievement may be the re-election of George W. Bush.
Yes, 140 characters will never be enough, no matter how good we are at synthesising our arguments, to add proper nuance and context to arguments fragmented by world-limits and constant 'interruptions'interruptions
