Clarifying some misconceptions on the ASPIC

The ASPIC+framework is a general framework for argumentation-based inference which aims to unifies two research strands: those in which arguments can only be attacked on their defeasible inferences and those in which arguments can only be attacked on their premises. The framework is meant to define a wide class of instantiations of abstract argumentation frameworks and to support the investigation of rationality postulates for argumentation-based inference. Recently, it has been argued that the ASPIC+framework suffers from several weaknesses. In this paper these criticisms are argued to be based on a number of misconceptions on the nature of the ASPIC+framework.