Abstract
We advance the point of view: an argument as an argumentation and vice versa, to formulate Block (Bipolar) Argumentation (BBA), a bipolar argumentation theory that recursively instantiates an abstract argument with a bipolar argumentation. Multiple occurrence of the same argument(ation) can become issues in such a self-similar argumentation theory, for which we consider a graphical (syntactic) constraint, in relation to which we define its acceptability semantics. For some highlight, acceptability of unattacked arguments is not always warranted once this kind of a constraint must be taken into account.
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“\(\textsf {and}\)” instead of “and” is used in this paper when the context in which it appears strongly indicates truth-value comparisons. It follows the semantics of classical logic conjunction. Similarly for “\(\textsf {or}\)” (disjunction).
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We thank anonymous reviewers for helpful comments. The last two authors have been supported by project “Rappresentazione della Conoscenza e Apprendimento Automatico (RACRA) (“Ricerca di base” 2018–2020).
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Arisaka, R., Santini, F., Bistarelli, S. (2019). Block Argumentation. In: Baldoni, M., Dastani, M., Liao, B., Sakurai, Y., Zalila Wenkstern, R. (eds) PRIMA 2019: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11873. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33792-6_48
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