Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Kies on Assumptions

From http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp2/assume.htm Daniel Kies
An ontology of assumptions
  • Cultural
  • Biological
  • Intellectual -- with rational, emotional, or ethical appeals
  • Idiosyncratic -- my personal history
  • warranted -- those with evidence
  • unwarranted -- those without evidence
  • explicit -- stated directly
  • implicit -- must be derived
  • relevancy and validity -- connect the argument, analogy, generalization to the general case
  • limiting assumption -- keeps us from seeing situation/evidence clearly

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