Theodias

A Python package for dialectical structures.

The theodias package provides different classes and methods to apply the theory of dialectical structures (as introduced in [Betz2010] and [Betz2013]).

Installation

With pip (👉 https://pypi.org/project/theodias/)

pip install theodias

From the source code:

You can install the package from the source code by

• first git-cloning the repository:

  • git clone git@github.com:re-models/theodias.git

• and then installing the package by running ‘pip install -e .’ from the local directory of the package (e.g. local-path-to-repository/tau) that contains the setup file setup.py. (The -e-option will install the package in the editable mode.)

Note

The package requires a python version >= 3.8 and depends on the packages bitarray, numba and PySat (which will be installed by pip automatically).

Documentation

A Jupyter notebook provides step-by-step instructions of using the theodias package (theodias tutorial). Further details can be found in the API documentation.

Logging

theodias uses a logger named ‘tau’ but does not add any logging handlers. Accordingly, logs will be printed to sys.stderr if the application using theodias does not specify any other logging configuration (see https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html#configuring-logging-for-a-library).

Licence

MIT Licence

References

[Betz2010]

Betz, G. 2010, Theorie dialektischer Strukturen, Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann.

[Betz2013]

Betz, G. 2013, Debate Dynamics: How Controversy Improves Our Beliefs, Synthese Library, Dordrecht: Springer 2013.