Thanks for spending the time to respond point by point. I’d love to do the same, but this thread would become a bit unwieldy. However, of all the argument mapping software I’ve looked at, this one seems to be the best:
http://workflowy.com/
This document can be edited by anybody with this link, so please feel free to chime in. As I mentioned earlier, I’m starting a blog. The goal being to crowdsource ideas on how to make better argument mapping software from the LW community (rather than having discussion isolated to scattered posts). A huge part of this is sketching out example argument maps like the one aove.
For the most part, I agree with the sentiment expressed by Rosenhan. In fact, I agreed so much that I failed (I blame wikipedia :) ) to look at counter-arguments until recently as part of an effort to re-examine my old beliefs and formalize them into argument maps. Thanks for posting this. I wouldn’t have been motivated to formalize this into bullet points otherwise.
Did someone delete all of your arguments? I got there, and nothing was there. Maybe I’m doing something wrong and so I can’t see what you’re talking about?
I mean that by separating the pro and con arguments it becomes more difficult to trace the lines of argument and counterargument. Rebuttals are harder to follow if you have to sort through a list of bullet points to find the one that’s relevant to them.
I also made the comment to test whether or not you could see my comments. You can. That probably means that I’m doing something wrong or that you’re writing in some equivalent of invisible e-ink. I can’t think what I might be doing wrong though. I’m not too concerned about seeing the site though, so don’t worry about it.
Thanks for spending the time to respond point by point. I’d love to do the same, but this thread would become a bit unwieldy. However, of all the argument mapping software I’ve looked at, this one seems to be the best: http://workflowy.com/
I transferred your points and counter-points into this and then responded to a few of them (I’ll finish responding when I’ve got a bit more time):
This document can be edited by anybody with this link, so please feel free to chime in. As I mentioned earlier, I’m starting a blog. The goal being to crowdsource ideas on how to make better argument mapping software from the LW community (rather than having discussion isolated to scattered posts). A huge part of this is sketching out example argument maps like the one aove.
For the most part, I agree with the sentiment expressed by Rosenhan. In fact, I agreed so much that I failed (I blame wikipedia :) ) to look at counter-arguments until recently as part of an effort to re-examine my old beliefs and formalize them into argument maps. Thanks for posting this. I wouldn’t have been motivated to formalize this into bullet points otherwise.
Did someone delete all of your arguments? I got there, and nothing was there. Maybe I’m doing something wrong and so I can’t see what you’re talking about?
I just checked, and nobody deleted all of my arguments. If you click on this link:
https://workflowy.com/shared/c9e57ddb-d684-ede5-0511-8b8d11c561e0/
I still see nothing.
Do you see the “meta” note that I made on there?
I do see your meta comment… I’m not sure what you mean by it though.
I mean that by separating the pro and con arguments it becomes more difficult to trace the lines of argument and counterargument. Rebuttals are harder to follow if you have to sort through a list of bullet points to find the one that’s relevant to them.
I also made the comment to test whether or not you could see my comments. You can. That probably means that I’m doing something wrong or that you’re writing in some equivalent of invisible e-ink. I can’t think what I might be doing wrong though. I’m not too concerned about seeing the site though, so don’t worry about it.