This is not limited to software development. Try being involved in Wikipedia and you'll eventually have the displeasure of experiencing the same lack of structure and rigor in arguments. (I'll say, though, that the author mentions GitHub, which does seem particularly bad in comparison to the average Bugzilla instance, say, 10+ years ago, and it's part of why I avoid GitHub, purely for my own sanity and productivity.) It's these experiences that make you appreciate the role of a judge if you've ever sat in court or read through trial transcripts.
What we're all really aching for is a solution to the ratiocination problem. pron put together a nice overview of some of the history of thought in that area a couple years back[1]. There's also the Toulmin model[2].
What we're all really aching for is a solution to the ratiocination problem. pron put together a nice overview of some of the history of thought in that area a couple years back[1]. There's also the Toulmin model[2].
1. https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Toulmin#The_Toulmin_Mo...