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From reasonable preferences, via argumentation, to logic

Jacot, Justine LU ; Genot, Emmanuel LU and Zenker, Frank LU orcid (2016) In Journal of Applied Logic 18. p.105-128
Abstract
This article demonstrates that typical restrictions which are imposed in dialogical logic in order to recover first-order logical consequence from a fragment of natural language argumentation are also forthcoming from preference profiles of boundedly rational players, provided that these players instantiate a specific player type and compute partial strategies. We present two structural rules, which are formulated similarly to closure rules for tableaux proofs that restrict players' strategies to a mapping between games in extensive forms (i.e., game trees) and proof trees. Both rules are motivated from players' preferences and limitations; they can therefore be viewed as being player-self-imposable. First-order logical consequence is thus... (More)
This article demonstrates that typical restrictions which are imposed in dialogical logic in order to recover first-order logical consequence from a fragment of natural language argumentation are also forthcoming from preference profiles of boundedly rational players, provided that these players instantiate a specific player type and compute partial strategies. We present two structural rules, which are formulated similarly to closure rules for tableaux proofs that restrict players' strategies to a mapping between games in extensive forms (i.e., game trees) and proof trees. Both rules are motivated from players' preferences and limitations; they can therefore be viewed as being player-self-imposable. First-order logical consequence is thus shown to result from playing a specific type of argumentation game. The alignment of such games with the normative model of the Pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation is positively evaluated. But explicit rules to guarantee that the argumentation game instantiates first-order logical consequence have now become gratuitous, since their normative content arises directly from players' preferences and limitations. A similar naturalization for non-classical logics is discussed. (Less)
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Pragma-dialectics, Game semantics, Logic
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Journal of Applied Logic
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105 - 128
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10.1016/j.jal.2016.08.001
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  author       = {{Jacot, Justine and Genot, Emmanuel and Zenker, Frank}},
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  keywords     = {{Pragma-dialectics; Game semantics; Logic}},
  language     = {{eng}},
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  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Journal of Applied Logic}},
  title        = {{From reasonable preferences, via argumentation, to logic}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jal.2016.08.001}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.jal.2016.08.001}},
  volume       = {{18}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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