In Dung’s abstract argumentation, arguments are either acceptable
or unacceptable, given a chosen notion of acceptability.
This gives a coarse way to compare arguments. In this paper,
we propose a counting approach for a more fine-gained assessment
to arguments by counting the number of their respective
attackers and defenders based on argument graph and argument
game. An argument is more acceptable if the proponent
puts forward more number of defenders for it and the opponent
puts forward less number of attackers against it. We show that
our counting model has two well-behaved properties: normalization
and convergence. Then, we define a counting semantics
based on this model, and investigate some general properties of
the semantics.