You have written a hypertext, Socrates in the Labyrinth, in which you discuss this problem of using hypertext in philosophy, in argumentation, and of course this hypertext has arguments within it, so what is your experience of using hypertext in order to arrange and organise an argument?
David Kolb - Actually I tried to do it in various different ways while I was writing the text. Partially that is because I learned as I was going along. Partially it is because deliberate experimentations were made, and I also included some smaller texts which show various forms with the larger ones.
My experience was that it is good to break up the arguments so that it is not all presented in a single block, but that it is not good to break it up too much. If you tried, for instance, in a complete argument to give each step of the argument in one little block of text, it would be too hard for the reader to keep everything in mind.
So what I decided was to give a chunk of argument, maybe half a page or several paragraphs, which were best read together, and then to link that in various directions to comments, background, previous and subsequent arguments, so that there is a certain judgement you need about how it can be best presented.
Download ebooks on http://www.frenchtheory.com/ - See that post with different algorithms in metabole - See the journal French Metablog with today different posts-
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