Tenability: A New Dialogue-Based Semantics for Argumentation
A new paper on arXiv introduces tenability, a family of dialogue-based semantics for Dung-style abstract argumentation. The authors argue that existing weak semantics, while relaxing admissibility by discounting self-defeating attacks, still require uniform defense against all reasonable arguments. This uniformity is too demanding when defensibility is strategic. Tenability formalizes when a position can be defended by tailoring responses to specific attacks. The paper is an extended version of earlier work.
Key facts
- The paper is available on arXiv with ID 2605.02024.
- It introduces tenability, a family of dialogue-based semantics.
- Tenability addresses limitations of weak semantics in argumentation.
- Weak semantics discount attacks from unreasonable arguments but require uniform defense.
- Tenability allows context-dependent responses to attacks.
- The work is an extended version of a previous paper.
- The paper is categorized as a new announcement on arXiv.
- The abstract mentions Dung-style abstract argumentation.
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- arXiv