A logic for legal hierarchies

  • Authors:
  • Pierre-Yves Schobbens

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ICAIL '93 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Artificial intelligence and law
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

The theory of non-monotonic reasoning has interesting applications for the formalization and automated use of legal concepts, specially:• drawing conclusions from a logically inconsistent, but hierarchic, regulations [1, 30];• similarly, establishing facts from a set of inconsistent testimonies, partially ranked by confidence;• using presumptions (such as the presumption of innocence) in the face of possibly contradictory evidence.In this paper, we use a logic [37, 38], that ranks contradictory formulae using two new paraconsistent variants of conjunction: “but” and “on the other hand”. Its algebraic proof theory is presented.