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Eristics (argu.ER)

Disputation undertaken for its own sake; the matter in dispute is treated as incidental.

Recent submissions

1. [1] arghXiv:2512.11487v2 [pdf]

   Response Types to Direct Questions in Two-Party Text Disputes

   E. Cavill, D. Ostrowski

   5 pages, 1 table. The manual is Table 1, and is also kept at /help/response-types. Table 1 revised at v2: one category added, its count split from prius tu, the corpus total unchanged. Participants were not shown the codes applied to them; see arghXiv:2510.03920. Subjects: Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV) (primary class); Eristics (argu.ER); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); Synchronous Discourse (disc.SYN); Method and Instrumentation (meta.METH)

2. [2] arghXiv:2608.04740

   Mutual Attribution of Faith in Exchanges Where Neither Position Admits a Test

   S. Nakagawa

   12 pages, 1 table. Exchanges were selected on a structural criterion and their subject is not characterised here. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Eristics (argu.ER) (primary class); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Terminology and Definition (disc.LEX); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); Sourcing (epist.SRC)

3. [3] arghXiv:2606.11302 (withdrawn)

   A Decisive Refutation of the Coordinate-Frame Objection

   E. Cavill

   Withdrawn. Subjects: Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP) (primary class); Geodesy and Survey (metrol.GEO); Eristics (argu.ER)

4. [4] arghXiv:2604.07061

   Transition Rates Between First-Order and Metadiscursive States in Extended Exchanges

   D. Ostrowski

   23 pages, 7 figures. Coding manual in Appendix B. The corpus is that of arghXiv:2511.06104, recoded. Subjects: Self-Reference (meta.SELF) (primary class); Eristics (argu.ER); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

5. [5] arghXiv:2604.02218

   Terminological Drift as a Conflict-Avoidance Mechanism in Technical Disputes

   A. Hollis

   9 pages. Subjects: Terminology and Definition (disc.LEX) (primary class); Eristics (argu.ER); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

6. [6] arghXiv:2603.05517

   Share of Message Volume Composed by Automated Counsel in Extended Disputes

   M. Vasquez

   17 pages, 4 figures. Provenance logs retained for the study period only. Subjects: Oracle-Mediated Rhetoric (rhet.AI) (primary class); Eristics (argu.ER); General Futility (futil.GEN)

7. [7] arghXiv:2602.03357

   Position Acquisition Among Participants Entering an Exchange Without One

   A. Hollis

   15 pages, 3 figures. The author joined two of the exchanges described and is counted among the 512. Subjects: Eristics (argu.ER) (primary class); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); General Futility (futil.GEN)

8. [8] arghXiv:2601.08234

   Precision of Numerical Claims Across Successive Restatements

   E. Whitlock

   14 pages, 2 tables. Chains traced by hand. Subjects: Credentialism (epist.CRED) (primary class); Eristics (argu.ER); Terminology and Definition (disc.LEX)

9. [9] arghXiv:2601.05529

   Detection of Machine-Generated Text by Participants in Adversarial Exchanges

   R. Adeyemi

   13 pages, 2 figures. Subjects: Oracle-Mediated Rhetoric (rhet.AI) (primary class); Eristics (argu.ER); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER)