Before I gave up on finding out what this was and closed the website, I saw that the copyright author on the bottom of the page was German or affiliated with a German university. I'm fine with giving the person a pass on some of this language, and drawing on the German I know (and having lived there, somewhat familiar with how Germans would say things in English), I think:
- argumentation should be arguments or in more words: "these are the arguments I'm presenting to support my claims."
- pro/contra is pros/cons
- I have never heard the word 'dialectical'
- premise-conclusion structure I think is something like hypothesis-conclusion, maybe?
I clicked on the link, and my thought process was something like:
The name invokes markdown, so it sounds like something for marking up args but I have no idea what args are.
> A simple syntax for complex argumentation
What does that even mean?
Clicked on "Getting Started" and immediately it wants me to install something and/or use a sandbox. Well, I'm not going to install anything when I have no idea what it even is, and I'm also not going to bother trying out the sandbox because I have no idea what it is.
The next three text blocks on the main page:
> Simple - Writing pro & contra lists in Argdown is as simple as writing a Twitter message. You don't have to learn anything new, except a few simple rules that will feel very natural.
Oh, so it's a markup language for writing lists?
> Expressive - With these simple rules you will be able to define complex dialectical relations between arguments or dive into the details of their logical premise-conclusion structures.
No wait, it's a markup language for making mind maps?
> Powerful - Your document is transformed into an argument map while you are typing. You can export your analysis as HTML, SVG, PDF, PNG or JSON. If that is not enough, you can easily extend Argdown with your own plugin.
Well whatever this is, it can export to other file formats. Too bad the website never bothered telling me what it was, so by this point I just gave up.
- argumentation should be arguments or in more words: "these are the arguments I'm presenting to support my claims."
- pro/contra is pros/cons
- I have never heard the word 'dialectical'
- premise-conclusion structure I think is something like hypothesis-conclusion, maybe?