CRMinf: the Argumentation Model ©CIDOC 2009 CRMinf: the Argumentation Model Stephen Stead Paveprime Ltd and Southampton University Oxford, UK, February 2015  

Agenda How do we accumulate knowledge What do we accumulate An example ©CIDOC 2009 Agenda How do we accumulate knowledge What do we accumulate An example Unique feature of CRMinf Conclusion

Knowledge Accumulation ©CIDOC 2009 Knowledge Accumulation Observation What? How? When? Adoption From whom? Inference/Deduction Based on what? How?

Somebodies belief in something ©CIDOC 2009 Produces Beliefs Who When About What Set of propositions What True/False/Unknown I2 Belief Somebodies belief in something J5 holds to be J4 that I4 Proposition Set The Something I6 Belief Value True

An example (British Museum) ©CIDOC 2009 An example (British Museum) E39 Actor Person SdS P14 carried out by I5 Inference Making Evolution Decision J2 concluded that I2 Belief SdS Belief in Evolution A of Misc 4 J1 used as premise J4 that J5 holds to be J3 applies I2 Belief BM Belief in Spatial Relations of Misc 4 I4 Proposition Set Evolution A I6 Belief Value True I3 Inference Logic Catalogue Text Rules J2 concluded that J4 that J5 holds to be J2 concluded that I2 Belief SdS Belief in Evolution B of Misc 4 I4 Proposition Set S1 I6 Belief Value True J4 that J5 holds to be I2 Belief SdS Belief in Evolution C of Misc 4 I4 Proposition Set Evolution B I6 Belief Value False J4 that J5 holds to be I4 Proposition Set Evolution C I6 Belief Value False

Unique feature of CRMinf ©CIDOC 2009 Unique feature of CRMinf FALSE!

©CIDOC 2009 Conclusion CRMinf documents:- Inference Chains Dead Ends