This paper replies to Leila Amgoud's critical discussion of the ASPIC+ framework, published as

• L. Amgoud, Five weaknesses of ASPIC+. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Managing of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU'12), Part III, CCIS 299, pp. 122-131. Springer Verlag 2012.

  Please note that the version of this paper that is online at http://www.irit.fr/~Leila.Amgoud/publications.html is not the version published in the Springer proceedings of IPMU'12 but is a new, unrefereed version, which was put online early May 2012. For the IPMU'12 version of Amgoud's paper see Springer's CCIS webpages.