These rules were used by the ASPIC argumentation engine to generate arguments on the validity of the data provided by EMAGE.
This case study created a prototype using a third-party argumentation engine from ASPIC, Argumentation Services Platform with Integrated Components (www.argumentation.org), to generate arguments for the data held in the EMAGE developmental mouse gene expression database (Davidson et al., 1997).
Inevitably, this generates arguments about where the balance should be struck.
Only when a researcher directly asked people to generate arguments against their own beliefs were they able to do so.
It is not that people are incapable of generating arguments that are counter to their beliefs but, rather, people are not motivated to do so.
"The Amazing Race" generates its heat via the bustle and confusion of city life, the frustration of airport logistics and, surprisingly, the inanity of its challenges, which serve mostly to generate arguments between teammates.
They're better than the competition, but they don't give free rein to eccentricity and unpredictability, or generate arguments that finish somewhere wildly different than where you'd expect them to end up.
An ability to generate arguments is important in education of social and science domains.
