Necessary Extension

Given a semantics σ\sigma, a set E⊆AE \subseteq A is a necessary σ\sigma-extension of an iAF I=(A,A?,R,R?)I = (A, A^?, R, R^?) iff E∈σ(F∗)E \in \sigma(F^*) for every completion F∗F^*.

Remarks

This is the necessary verification of (Baumeister et al., 2018) for definite sets; (Baumeister et al., 2018) also admits sets S⊆A∪A?S \subseteq A \cup A^? and then asks whether S∩A∗S \cap A^* is a σ\sigma-extension of every completion.

Reference

Baumeister, D., Neugebauer, D., Rothe, J. & Schadrack, H. (2018). Verification in Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks. Artificial Intelligence, 264, pp. 1–26.