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Visualizing The Logical Structure of Arguments: A New Platform (guest post by Simon Cullen)

June 1, 2017

The following is a guest post* by Simon Cullen (Princeton), which continues an earlier discussion of his work teaching with argument mapping techniques and software.

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Visualizing The Logical Structure of Arguments: A New Platform (guest post by Simon Cullen)