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Choosing the Lens: Strategic Perspective Activation in Context-Dependent Argumentation

Albert Sadowski, Jarosław A. Chudziak

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Published 2026-05-29 · First seen 2026-06-01

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The same arguments often need to be evaluated under different external regimes. An agent with influence over the regime has a strategic lever that standard formalisms do not directly capture. We introduce context-dependent argumentation frameworks (CDAFs), an extension of Dung's theory in which a defeat function determines, per context, which attacks succeed. A perspective-labeled specialisation derives the defeat function from a relevance set $ρ$ and a priority $π$. The relevance set is the agent's action space. In a small worked example, the agent's target argument is rejected under every full-relevance injective priority, yet accepted under partial activations, one of which no VAF audience can mirror. We define the corresponding decision problem, ACTIVATION-MANIPULATION, and record baseline complexity bounds. Tight bounds and multi-agent variants are left open.

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@article{sadowski2026choosing,
  title = {Choosing the Lens: Strategic Perspective Activation in Context-Dependent Argumentation},
  author = {Albert Sadowski and Jarosław A. Chudziak},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {The same arguments often need to be evaluated under different external regimes. An agent with influence over the regime has a strategic lever that standard formalisms do not directly capture. We introduce context-dependent argumentation frameworks (CDAFs), an extension of Dung's theory in which a defeat function determines, per context, which attacks succeed. A perspective-labeled specialisation derives the defeat function from a relevance set \$ρ\$ and a priority \$π\$. The relevance set is the age},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.31581},
  keywords = {cs.AI},
  eprint = {2605.31581},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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