What is Arguman?
Arguman is an open source web application designed to map out arguments and help analyze their structures. It allows users to visually outline arguments, make claims, and provide evidence to support or rebut those claims. The goal is to promote critical thinking by breaking down complex arguments into simple, easy-to-evaluate components.
Some key features of Arguman include:
- Public forums for proposing arguments and allowing community discussion and assessment
- Tools for mapping out arguments, including claims, inference rules, and textual evidence
- Crowdsourced evaluation system where community members can upvote or downvote individual arguments
- Analytics to track most popular and controversial arguments over time
- Integration with online knowledge bases like Wikipedia to automatically fetch supporting evidence
By making argument analysis into an engaging, social experience, Arguman aims to promote reasoning, critical thinking, and meaningful debate around complex topics. The transparency provided by its argument mapping structure also allows the strongest evidence and claims to emerge through public discourse and evaluation.