The Argument Clinic

The conversational argument mapper maps your argument as you chat.

Come with an argument, claim, or belief. A guide talks it through with you and draws a graphical depiction—an argument map—as you go.

Choose your guide

The author also says that we ought to prevent bad things when it costs us nothing comparable.

The Mapper

Now we have two premises, working together! How does the author support “We ought to prevent bad things when it costs us nothing comparable”?

Interpret an argument with the Mapper

I’m done my argument.

The Builder

Before I sum up, shall I look it over for weak spots?

Yes, look it overNo, just sum it up

Develop and strengthen your own argument with the Builder

It tastes sweet to me!

The Skeptic

I'd never argue with your tongue. But your belief is about the honey itself. So are you assuming “How things taste to me shows how they really are”?

Debate your belief with the Skeptic

Your argument map for the claim that computers do not understand anything

All done!

Save your argument map and discussion as images or PDFs to print or share.

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Download your argument map when you’re done

G. E. Moore’s Proof of the External World

Saved by braininavat4eva · Made with the Mapper

Source: G. E. Moore (1939). Proof of an External World.

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The Library

Share your map, rate the maps of others, and link maps to each other and to original sources.

Save to the Library

Save your map to the Library

Choose your guide

The Mapper, a tabby cat in a blue cloak and laurel wreath, with round spectacles, holding a scroll with an argument map

Map an argument

The Argument Mapper

Already have an argument, either your own or someone else's? The Mapper helps you graphically depict it charitably. Choose this if you want to interpret an already-existing argument.

Meet the Mapper

The Builder, a fox in a terracotta cloak and laurel wreath, holding a stylus and a scroll with a temple and an argument map

Build an argument

The Argument Builder

Want to come up with or improve an argument of your own? The Builder helps you build the strongest version of it, step by step.

Meet the Builder

Sextus Empiricus, a bearded Greek philosopher in a terracotta robe, shrugging and holding a perfectly level balance scale

Suspend judgment

Debate the Skeptic

Burdened by the weight of your beliefs? The Skeptic employs the modes of Pyrrhonian skepticism to debate you until you reach the suspension of judgment, which will bring you tranquility at last.

Meet the Skeptic

“I knew what I thought. Now I know why I think it, too!”Person on the Clapham Omnibus, on the Argument Mapper

“The Builder helps me build the strongest argument I can for my most absurd conclusions.”Devil’s Advocate, on the Argument Builder

“I used to think honey was sweet. Now? Who can say. I've never been calmer.”Former Dogmatist, on Debate the Skeptic

“The cat found a premise I didn’t know I was assuming.”Surprised Philosopher, on the Argument Mapper

“My paper has eight premises now, and most of them are supported!”Grateful PhD Student, on the Argument Builder

“Three philosophers at an APA disagreed with me. I suspended judgment on the spot. Tranquility has changed my life forever.”Untroubled Philosopher, on Debate the Skeptic

“Finally, a picture of what Kant was saying. Well, a picture.”Puzzled Undergraduate, on the Argument Mapper

“The fox told me my argument was missing a step. It was. I was furious.”Recovering Debater, on the Argument Builder

“I reached the suspension of judgment on my thesis topic and never looked back.”Tranquil PhD Student, on Debate the Skeptic