In the discipline of Artificial Intelligence, argumentation is formalised by reasoning models based on building and evaluation of interacting arguments.
The political publisher Biteback has launched an ambitious new series that, judging by the first three books published, tackles the controversy of the topics explored with a mixture of intelligence and forthright argument from some excellent writers.
The most prominent celebrants of economic uncertainty, he notes laconically, are often safely insulated from it themselves.Such a brief, stark summary of one of his explorations of possible cause and effect does not do justice to the subtlety, density and intelligence of his argument.
Asked whether hard-liners in the Pentagon had politicized intelligence to support arguments for war with Iraq, Dr. Cambone said: "Any policy maker has certain views.
In "The Bell Curve", the best-selling book on race, genes, and intelligence, these two arguments are confused, and the conclusion is made that affirmative action imposes "costs in economic efficiency and fairness".
"Even in the upper reaches of American intelligence, Sarkozy's arguments to justify this war are not taken seriously," Arfi explained.
Some political analysts say President Bush crossed a line in selectively using information by pointing to British intelligence to make an argument, when American intelligence doubted the claim.
The intelligence "is a compelling argument for the president to take the measures that a lot of us have been arguing for all along," he said.
"Let us presume that is true," Reims said, warming to his argument that intelligence investigations had compromised the chain of evidence against Lerch.
