Lloyd said:
It seems like it wouldn't be real hard to adapt any paper to truthmapping on your site here. Anyone could go through an existing paper and label the main premises and conclusions. We initially discussed having QDL allow anyone to insert footnotes into any paper on your site. I think you said that was doable. If so, then it should be possible to insert markers for premises and conclusions.

Yes, the footnote technology is already working (and this post is an example of its usage). You just select some text and click the "Post Reply" button, and it creates the quote in the editor for you, and places the footnote in the source text.

 

Beyond that, you have a really cool idea about extracting arguments from an existing paper, to build an outline, perhaps semi-automatically, just from the markers.

 

I might do something simpler first. Assuming that it's actually a thread that's being gleaned, which is poorly organized, I'd like to be able to select some text and click an "Add to Summary" button, and it would copy the text to a summary table at the beginning of the thread.*¹¹⁶⁸⁷ Items in the table would appear just in chronological order. Making a logical outline out of that would have to be done by hand. But the first step is always going to be identifying the salient points and asembling them somewhere. So that's worth doing anyway. Then we can think about logical markers.