"This book covers diverse fields of enquiry including decision science, political science, argumentation, knowledge management, cognitive psychology and business intelligence, giving a perspective on group reasoning that ultimately aims to lead to a greater understanding of reasoning communities...

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The elements of collective decision making -- Collective reasoning and coalescing reasoning -- Individual reasoning within a reasoning community -- The generic/actual argument model -- Communicating reasoning and dialectics -- Narrative reasoning -- Ontologies and the semantic web -- Pragmatic...