Introducing Analogy in Abstract Argumentation

PAOLA D. BUDAN; MARIA VANINA MARTINEZ; MAXIMILIANO C. D. BUDÁN; GUILLERMO R. SIMARI

Buenos Aires

Workshop; Workshop on Weighted Logics for Artificial Intelligence; 2015

In the last decade, several works have emerged trying to reflect and model the way human beings reason and make decisions. Walton proposes a set of argumentation schemes based on a set of questions that determine patterns of reasoning. In this work, we will consider a particular scheme from the literature, called Argumentation Scheme by Analogy. We formalize the concept on analogy between arguments based on a model of the similarities between the objects/situations the arguments describe; by means of this model we are able to express the critical questions proposed by Walton in a more formal way. Furthermore, we show how to instantiate the attack relation in Dung?s Argument Frameworks in order to capture, analyzing the arguments acceptability in a collective way, the notion of an analogy relation, partitioning in this way a set of arguments into sets of analogous arguments.