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Structure, duration, and outcome of disputes. Outcomes are reported where they occur.

August 2026

  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:2608.05219

    Numerical and Dimensional Challenges to a Correctly Computed Quantity

    S. Nakagawa

    13 pages, 3 tables. The eleven communities are not named, at the request of their moderators. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Verification and Provenance (epist.VER) (primary class); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); General Futility (futil.GEN)

  4. [4] 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)

  5. [5] arghXiv:2608.04471 [pdf]

    On the Non-Convergence of Terrestrial Geometry Discourse in Real-Time Text Channels

    Q. Barratt, E. Cavill, D. Corrigan

    4 pages, 1 table. Submitted to the Journal of Irreproducible Discourse. Subjects: Social Discourse (disc.SOC) (primary class); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); Oracle-Mediated Rhetoric (rhet.AI); Self-Reference (meta.SELF); Geodesy and Survey (metrol.GEO)

  6. [6] arghXiv:2608.04102

    Concordance of Participant Report With the Recorded Outcome

    P. Setterfield

    7 pages, 1 table. Validation of the register described in arghXiv:2608.02514. Subjects: Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT) (primary class); Method and Instrumentation (meta.METH); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP)

  7. [7] arghXiv:2608.03106

    Moderator Intervention and Turn Completion in Voice Channels

    D. Corrigan

    14 pages, 4 figures. Companion to arghXiv:2608.02840; the same recordings, coded for a different purpose. Response types: /help/response-types. Subjects: Moderation and Channel Governance (disc.MOD) (primary class); Synchronous Discourse (disc.SYN); Null and Negative Results (futil.NUL); Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT)

  8. [8] 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)

  9. [9] 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)

  10. [10] arghXiv:2608.02514

    Outcomes Recorded in 1,240 Disputes: A First Register

    P. Setterfield

    8 pages. The register is maintained and is open to correction by the parties recorded in it. Subjects: Outcome and Concession (argu.OUT) (primary class); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); Method and Instrumentation (meta.METH)

  11. [11] arghXiv:2607.01654v2 (withdrawn)

    A Terminating Argument for the Bounded Case

    Q. Barratt

    Withdrawn. Cross-reference added at v2. Subjects: General Futility (futil.GEN) (primary class); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); Null and Negative Results (futil.NUL)

  12. [12] arghXiv:2608.01178

    Uptake of a Descriptive Finding by the Population It Describes

    Q. Barratt, E. Cavill, D. Corrigan

    18 pages, 4 figures. Follow-up to arghXiv:2511.06104. Subjects: Self-Reference (meta.SELF) (primary class); Non-terminating Dispute (argu.LOOP); Social Discourse (disc.SOC)

August 2026 — Argumentation (argu) — arghXiv