Defeasibility in Legal Reasoning

Sartor, Giovanni

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Defeasibility in Legal Reasoning

Giovanni Sartor

European University Institute Law Department

March 1, 2009

ESSAYS IN LEGAL DEFEASIBILITY, J. Ferrer, ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, Forthcoming
EUI Law Working Paper No. 2009/02

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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.

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Date posted: March 25, 2009 ; Last revised: March 14, 2011

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Sartor, Giovanni, Defeasibility in Legal Reasoning (March 1, 2009). ESSAYS IN LEGAL DEFEASIBILITY, J. Ferrer, ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1367540

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