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Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV)

Discrete manoeuvres available within an exchange, catalogued without approval.

Recent submissions

1. [1] arghXiv:2608.06902

   Disputes Deferred to a Recurring Observable Occasion

   E. Cavill

   8 pages, 1 table. A follow-up to one category of arghXiv:2512.11487. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV) (primary class); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER); Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT)

2. [2] 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)

3. [3] 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)

4. [4] arghXiv:2608.02840 [pdf]

   Exits from Text in Two-Party Disputes: Voice Transfer, Image Substitution, and Deferred Citation

   E. Cavill, D. Corrigan

   3 pages, 1 table. Corpus and coding manual available on request; two requests have been received. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Synchronous Discourse (disc.SYN) (primary class); Image and Non-Textual Argument (rhet.IMG); Sourcing (epist.SRC); Moderation and Channel Governance (disc.MOD); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV)

5. [5] arghXiv:2608.02701

   A Note on the Standard of Evidence Appropriate to Extraordinary Claims

   Lionel Trask

   31 pages. Expanded from a note of four pages circulated in 2025. Subjects: Confidence and Calibration (epist.CONF) (primary class); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Sourcing (epist.SRC)

6. [6] arghXiv:2606.09100v2

   Fallacy Attribution Outside Argumentative Settings

   E. Cavill

   9 pages, 1 figure. Companion to arghXiv:2607.07120, coded from the same corpus. Subjects: Social Discourse (disc.SOC) (primary class); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Terminology and Definition (disc.LEX)

7. [7] arghXiv:2607.07120 [pdf]

   Fallacy Attribution in Two-Party Disputes: Extension, Agreement, and Depth

   E. Cavill, Q. Barratt

   3 pages, 2 tables. Coding manual and the move set in Appendix A. Item 3 was not scored. Subjects: Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV) (primary class); Terminology and Definition (disc.LEX); Method and Instrumentation (meta.METH); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

8. [8] arghXiv:2606.02295

   Movement of the Evidential Standard Within Single Exchanges

   T. Ferreira

   11 pages, 2 tables. Distinct from proposition substitution; see arghXiv:2508.02914 for that case. Subjects: Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV) (primary class); Sourcing (epist.SRC); Confidence and Calibration (epist.CONF); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP)

9. [9] arghXiv:2605.14206

   Concurrent Responsiveness in Exchanges Recorded as Talkative Silence

   D. Ostrowski

   9 pages, 2 tables. The intervals are a subset of the corpus of arghXiv:2512.11487. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Synchronous Discourse (disc.SYN) (primary class); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

10. [10] arghXiv:2605.08840

    Invocation of a Named Cognitive Finding in Adversarial Exchanges, and Its Correspondence to the Finding

    K. Lindqvist

    16 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. The finding invoked is real and is not evaluated here. Subjects: Confidence and Calibration (epist.CONF) (primary class); Credentialism (epist.CRED); Moves and Tactics (argu.MOV); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)