From Contexts to Values: Context-Dependent Defeat in Abstract Argumentation
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arXiv:2608.15536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In value-based argumentation, an audience's ordering of values decides which attacks succeed as defeats. In many settings the deciding factor is not the audience but the circumstances: the same attack may succeed at one procedural stage, or under one regulation, and fail at another. Context-dependent argumentation frameworks (CDAFs), a model we recently introduced, capture this directly: one set of arguments, one attack relation, and a defeat function that switches each attack on or off per context, so every context induces an ordinary Dung frame
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.15536v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In value-based argumentation, an audience's ordering of values decides which attacks succeed as defeats.
- In many settings the deciding factor is not the audience but the circumstances: the same attack may succeed at one procedural stage, or under one regulation, and fail at another.
- Context-dependent argumentation frameworks (CDAFs), a model we recently introduced, capture this directly: one set of arguments, one attack relation, and a defeat function that switches each attack on or off per context, so every context induces an ordinary Dung frame
Why it matters
“From Contexts to Values: Context-Dependent Defeat in Abstract Argumentation” may affect what data AI products can use and where accountability sits. Product teams should watch compliance duties, rights holders should watch enforcement, and users should watch transparency and appeal mechanisms.
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