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In recent years there has been a spate of papers describing systems for plausible reasoning which do not use numerical measures of uncertainty. Some of the most successful of these have been systems for argumentation, and there are advantages in considering the conditions under which such systems are normative. This paper discusses an extension to previous work on normative argumentation, exploring the properties of a particular normative approach to argumentation and suggesting some uses of it.
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Parsons, S. (1997). Normative argumentation and qualitative probability. In: Gabbay, D.M., Kruse, R., Nonnengart, A., Ohlbach, H.J. (eds) Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning. FAPR ECSQARU 1997 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035642
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