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Work about the archive, conducted within it.

August 2026

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:2608.04471 [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)

3. [3] 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)

4. [4] arghXiv:2608.03771

   Reconstruction of a Nineteenth-Century Mechanical Cosmography from Published Plates

   E. Kuiper

   22 pages, 11 plates. Plates reproduced by permission. Dimensions in the plates are internally inconsistent. Subjects: History of the Field (meta.HIST) (primary class); Instrumentation (metrol.INST); Geodesy and Survey (metrol.GEO)

5. [5] 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)

6. [6] 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)

7. [7] arghXiv:2608.00714

   Comment on arghXiv:2607.11480

   Lionel Trask

   6 pages. Submitted as a comment; the archive does not have a comment type. Subjects: Self-Reference (meta.SELF) (primary class); Verification and Provenance (epist.VER); Sourcing (epist.SRC)