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license: odc-by
language:
  - en

Arguments & Debates

Carefully chosen argumentative texts suitable for exercising argument mapping and logical analysis.

Chosen and postprocessed from great sources that can be accessed online:

  • different editions of "Pros and Cons - A Debater's Handbook"
  • Britannica's procon.org
  • NYT column "Room for Debate" via I. Habernal's ARC task repo 🙏
  • Debatabase by idebate.net

Subset categories:

  • arguments-*: one main argument per text
  • debates-*-handful: 3-5 arguments per text
  • debates-*-full: 5+x arguments per text

Licensing Information

This collection is released under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0 license.