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Senses of ‘argument’ in instantiated argumentation frameworks

Adam Wyner Orcid Logo, Trevor Bench-Capon, Paul Dunne, Federico Cerutti

Argument & Computation, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 50 - 72

Swansea University Author: Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/19462166.2014.1002535

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Abstract Argumentation Frameworks (AFs) provide a fruitful basis for exploring issues of defeasible reasoning. Their power largely derives from the abstract nature of the arguments within the framework, where arguments are atomic nodes in an undifferentiated relation of attack. This abstraction conc...

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Published in: Argument & Computation
ISSN: 1946-2166 1946-2174
Published: Taylor and Francis 2015
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