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Utilitarian Moral Judgment Exclusively Coheres with Inference from Is to Ought [PDF]
Faced with moral choice, people either judge according to pre-existing obligations (deontological judgment), or by taking into account the consequences of their actions (utilitarian judgment).
Shira Elqayam +4 more
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Annotated Defeasible Logic [PDF]
Defeasible logics provide several linguistic features to support the expression of defeasible knowledge. There is also a wide variety of such logics, expressing different intuitions about defeasible reasoning.
Governatori, Guido, Maher, Michael J.
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Argumentation and explanation in the law [PDF]
This article investigates the conceptual connection between argumentation and explanation in the law and provides a formal account of it. To do so, the methods used are conceptual analysis from legal theory and formal argumentation from AI.
Antonino Rotolo +2 more
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BackgroundThe COVID-19 health crisis has posed an unprecedented challenge for governments worldwide to manage and communicate about the pandemic effectively, while maintaining public trust.
Nasaai Masngut, Emma Mohamad
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Nihilism about practical reasoning is the thesis that there is no such thing as practical rationality—as rationally figuring out what to do. While other philosophers have defended a theoretically oriented version of the thesis, usually called “error ...
Elijah Millgram
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Defeasibility applied to Forrester’s paradox
Deontic logic is a logic often used to formalise scenarios in the legal domain. Within the legal domain there are many exceptions and conflicting obligations. This motivates the enrichment of deontic logic with not only the notion of defeasibility, which
Julian Chingoma, Thomas Meyer
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What’s wrong with Irrefutability and Defeasibility Proposals to Gettier Problems? [PDF]
Gettier problems are cases, or examples, which appear to run counter JTB analyses of knowledge as justified true belief. According to JTB theory of knowledge, S knows p, only if: a) The proposition p in true; b) S believes that p; c) S is justified in ...
mohammad ali abbasian
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JUDGES AND EXCEPTIONS: DEFEASIBILITY OF NORMS BY JUDICIAL ACT
The purpose of the paper is to show that the introduction of exceptions in rules by judges is a manifestation of creative role of courts of law that can be explained as an act of defeating norms.
Víctor García Yzaguirre
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Defeasibility in Judicial Opinion: Logical or Procedural?
While defeasibility in legal reasoning has been the subject of recent scholarship, it has yet to be studied in the context of judicial opinion. Yet, being subject to appeal, judicial decisions can default for a variety of reasons.
David Godden, Douglas Walton
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What philosophers call defeasible reasoning is roughly the same as nonmonotonic reasoning in AI. Some brief remarks are made about the nature of reasoning and the relationship between work in epistemology, AI, and cognitive psychology. This is followed by a general description of human rational architecture.
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