NASA NTRS · 20240011615
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C Michael Holloway. 2024-10-03. Much Ado About Argument (and A Bit About Other Stuff). https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20240011615
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The Overarching Properties (OPs) distill the essence of the implicit properties that decades of practice have determined an aviation system or subsystem must possess to be eligible for approval by relevant authorities. This document presents the fundamentals of construction and assessment for explicit arguments that conclude a system or subsystem possesses the OPs.
This paper follows up A Primer on Argument by providing introductory information about how to assess arguments. The structure is as follows. The opening section identifies and summarizes prerequisite information a reader needs to understand to understand this document. Section 2 introduces a way (but not the only way) to assess atomic arguments. Section 3 does the same for compound arguments. Section 4 wraps everything up. Appendix A collects the crucial information in one place. Appendix B explicates a detailed assessment example. The paper is published as a white paper because it is intended to be updated as additional experience is gained with its use.
The purpose of this document is to provide a common understanding of terms, concepts, principles, and uses of argument. It emphasizes the practical over the theoretical and the simple over the complicated.