I think focusing on the tool here is misleading. It is the process of creating something like a dependency graph representing the entire argument (and knowing how to analyze that graph) that is the important point, and people have been doing that for almost as long as philosophy has been around. Every critical thinking class teaches such techniques.
I think focusing on the tool here is misleading. It is the process of creating something like a dependency graph representing the entire argument (and knowing how to analyze that graph) that is the important point, and people have been doing that for almost as long as philosophy has been around. Every critical thinking class teaches such techniques.