The paper presents a theoretical investigational study of the potential advantages that secondary school learners may gain from learning two different subjects, namely, logic programming within computer science studies and argumentation texts within linguistics studies. The study suggests drawing an analogy between the two subjects since they both require similar abstraction skills manifested in the analysis of texts and in capturing their logic structure and inference. We propose that drawing analogies between two representations of argumentation texts can advance students’ understanding, and, furthermore, using computerized systems may enable students to interact with linguistics texts and thus enhance their understanding. The paper explores the connections between the two disciplines, emphasizing the similar structures used to express the knowledge, and presents the similar abstract thinking processes that learners must carry out. Further implications for curricula are discussed.

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Introduction to Logic.

Drawing Analogies between Logic Programming and Natural Language Argumentation Texts to Scaffold Learners' Understanding.

The Philosophical Foundations of PLEN: A Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms

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The indefeasibility of the inference that if not-A, then not-C

Traditional leadership and its relation to the democratically elected local government structure in Kwazulu-Natal

This paper argues for the ineluctably philosophical nature of “method and theory” in the academic study of religion. More to the point, it encourages a significant re-consideration of what passes for the “Philosophy of Religion,” a subfield whose concentration on mediaeval and contemporary Christian philosophical theology has impeded the development of an effective philosophical treatment of global human religious behavior. The paper seeks a History of Religions that is more informed by and about philosophy as a tradition and as a method and which therefore includes a disciplinary Philosophy of Religion(s) that is more relevant, practical, far-ranging, and productive.

Introduction to Logic.

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Drawing Analogies between Logic Programming and Natural Language Argumentation Texts to Scaffold Learners' Understanding.

The Philosophical Foundations of PLEN: A Protocol-theoretic Logic of Epistemic Norms

The indefeasibility of the inference that if not-A, then not-C

Traditional leadership and its relation to the democratically elected local government structure in Kwazulu-Natal

After This Strange Starting: Method, Theory and the Philosophy of Religion(s)