In the process of argumentation not all arguments are available at once. At each stage of argumentation new arguments are taken into account. In defeasible argumentation, where arguments can be defeated by other arguments, this results in the possible change of the status of arguments, depending on which arguments have been considered. Existing formalisms of defeasible argumentation do not provide a process view on argumentation, or overlook the influence on this process of the defeated arguments that have been taken into account.
In this paper we argue that a model of the process of argumentation requires that the arguments that are defeated at some stage of argumentation cannot simply be ignored. Otherwise, different stages of argumentation cannot be distinguished, and orders of argumentation can disappear.
Keywords: defeasible argumentation, nonmonotonic logic
Reference:
Verheij, Bart (1995). The influence of defeated arguments in defeasible
argumentation. WOCFAI 95. Proceedings of the Second World Conference
on the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (eds. M. De Glas and
Z. Pawlak), pp. 429-440. Angkor, Paris. Also published as report SKBS/B3.A/95-03.
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