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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 textdebates-*-handful
: 3-5 arguments per textdebates-*-full
: 5+x arguments per text
Licensing Information
This collection is released under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-By) v1.0 license.