TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards a formal account of reasoning about evidence
T2 - argumentation schemes and generalisations
AU - Bex, Floris
AU - Prakken, Henry
AU - Reed, Chris
AU - Walton, Douglas
N1 - Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - This paper studies the modelling of legal reasoning about evidence within general theories of defeasible reasoning and argumentation. In particular, Wigmore's method for charting evidence and its use by modern legal evidence scholars is studied in order to give a formal underpinning in terms of logics for defeasible argumentation. Two notions turn out to be crucial, viz. argumentation schemes and empirical generalisations.
AB - This paper studies the modelling of legal reasoning about evidence within general theories of defeasible reasoning and argumentation. In particular, Wigmore's method for charting evidence and its use by modern legal evidence scholars is studied in order to give a formal underpinning in terms of logics for defeasible argumentation. Two notions turn out to be crucial, viz. argumentation schemes and empirical generalisations.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=18744367295&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/B:ARTI.0000046007.11806.9a
DO - 10.1023/B:ARTI.0000046007.11806.9a
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18744367295
SN - 0924-8463
VL - 11
SP - 125
EP - 165
JO - Artificial Intelligence and Law
JF - Artificial Intelligence and Law
IS - 2-3
ER -