Dashed Arrows and Solid Arrows

[Indrajith]

I just started using Argunet. It is very helpful to analyze complex
debates and organize the facts. But going through the tutorial it is
not very obvious what is the real difference between the Dashed and
Solid Arrows and when to use it. I am sure, it has a great background
and will be very useful if used the correct way, but unfortunately I
couldn't make that out. Can somebody there help me to understand it
with some examples.

Thanks and Regards
Indrajith

[Christian Voigt]

hi!
By using solid arrows you can define logical (or semantic) relations
between two sentences: For example if you draw a red arrow from an
argument with the conclusion:
A) "Obama should support the Iranian uprising."
to a sentence B) "Obama should not support the Iranian uprising."
you declare that B) cannot be true, if A) is true. Wherever you use
these two sentences, this relation will be applied and appropriate
arrows will be drawn automatically.

If you only draw a dashed red arrow from an argument to B) you only
say something like "This argument should be reconstructed in a way
that its conclusion contradicts B)". But your arrow will not affect
any other arguments or sentences.

This is useful if you want to create a first draft of an argument map
without getting into the details. As soon as you begin to reconstruct
the premise-conclusion structures within arguments, you should replace
dashed arrows with solid ones.

For more about logical relations, please read "Map-independent
definition of sentence relations" in the documentation.
http://www.argunet.org/working-with-argunet/ch01s02.html

regards,
christian