defeasible logic

• Grounded Consequence for Defeasible Logic.

ISBN: 0521842050 TITLE: Grounded consequence for defeasible logic. AUTHOR: Antonelli, G. Aldo. PUBLISHER: Cambridge U. Pr. PUBLISH DATE: 2005 PAGES: 1...

• Reference and Research Book News
• Vol. 20 Nbr. 4, November 2005

• Abductive Reasoning

[...] yet, the implied modus ponens form, here, is defeasible rather than deductive, since the conditional premise functions not as a universal quantifier, but as "the hedged quantifier of ordinary life" (p. 151). The distinction has long been drawn in logic between efforts to assess arguments in light of standards of formal, or structural, correctness, on the one hand, and the use of logical reasoning to invent arguments, on the other.

• Review of Metaphysics, The
• Vol. 60 Nbr. 3, March 2007

• the Piney Woods Country Life School, Ridgway Management, Inc., D'Lo Royalties, Inc., Thomas L. Spengler, Albert L. Fairley, Jr. and James v. Fairley, Executors of the Estate of Alethe v. Fairley, Individually, and all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Shell Oil Company, Defendant-Appellee., 726 F.2d 225 (5th Cir. 1984)

...Harmon states,. "The most logical conclusion is that the oil and gas industry unders...Under the leases, Shell has a defeasible interest in the gas underground. The most it could...

• Federal Circuits

• Abductive Reasoning.

...For Peirce, the first modern logician to take seriously the prospect of a rhetoric of sc... science has implicitly recognized the defeasible modus ponens, but he holds it up to the light and ...

• Argumentation and Advocacy
• Vol. 42 Nbr. 2, September 2005

• Rhetoric and the Rule of Law: A Theory of Legal Reasoning.

... certainty under the Rule of Law is defeasible legal certainty; and the right to argue one's case...That has an intrinsic logic of its own within which it is clear why the interp...

• Constitutional Commentary
• Vol. 23 Nbr. 1, March 2006

• Presumption and the Practices of Tentative Cognition

Presumption's different uses in these areas reveal not inconsiderable differences, but Rescher stresses that presumption is always a pragmatic, procedural strategy adopted for economic reasons in specific contexts. For one unfamiliar with Rescher's broad philosophical research, this text offers an introduction to his epistemological theory, logic and philosophy of science.

... plausibly that though presumptions are defeasible, they are highly cost effective in their respectiv...

• Review of Metaphysics, The
• Vol. 61 Nbr. 2, December 2007

• Alden v. Maine, 527 U.S. 706 (1999)

...The logic of the decisions, however, does not turn on the fo... which case the dissent contends it is defeasible by statute) or from natural law (in which case the...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Just the facts: the case for workplace transparency.

... interventions, whether mandatory or defeasible. Both within and beyond the reach of substantive m...Of course, the logic of this tailoring is no stronger than the logic of...

• Stanford Law Review
• Vol. 63 Nbr. 2, January 2011

• Hintikka's alternatives.

... more than 50 years a lugubrious Finnish logician, Jaakko Hintikka, has been exploring the terra inc... agents and their reasoning with defeasible logics for generating and changing knowledge and b...

• Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
• Nbr. 2006, December 2006

• Law, incommensurability, and conceptually sequenced argument.

A conceptually sequenced argument is the best strategy for fairly considering pluralistic values in decisionmaking. This method rests squarely on the legal method that depends upon choices based in reason. Methods such as a critical tradeoff and a lexical ordering model are open to political tradeoffs that bias results.

... to choose in a way that violates the logic of "good, better, and best"--that is, the value-ma... is both conceptually sequenced and defeasible, precisely the two characteristics of a sensible p...

• University of Pennsylvania Law Review
• Vol. 146 Nbr. 5, June 1998