Date: 2009
Type: Working Paper
Defeasibility in Legal Reasoning
Working Paper, EUI LAW, 2009/02
SARTOR, Giovanni, Defeasibility in Legal Reasoning, EUI LAW, 2009/02 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/10768
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
I shall first introduce the idea of reasoning, and of defeasible reasoning in particular. I shall then argue
that cognitive agents need to engage in defeasible reasoning for coping with a complex and changing
environment. Consequently, defeasibility is needed in practical reasoning, and in particular in legal
reasoning
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/10768
ISSN: 1725-6739
Series/Number: EUI LAW; 2009/02
Publisher: European University Institute
Keyword(s): Legal reasoning defeasibility
