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1.6.2006 Some words about argumentation theory and Intarese toolbox

Participants: Jouni&Mikko

- the role of argumentation theory in risk assessment is to fill the gap between explicit modelling/calculation and unstructured discussion

- helps e.g. in making complicated models easier to intrepret by non-experts and brings out the essentials of a discourse

- the primary goal concerning argumentation theory's utilization for risk assessment is to make it a common, easy-to-use, a priori method for risk assessors - also use of argumentation theory as an a posteriori method for