A general problem in qualitative physics is determining the consequences of assumptions about the behavior of a system. If the space of behaviors is represented by an envisionment, many such consequences can be represented by pruning states from the envisionment. This paper provides a formal logic of occurrence which justifies the algorithms involved and provides a language for relating specific histories to envisionments. The concepts and axioms are general enough to be applicable to any system of qualitative physics. We further propose the concept of transverse quantities as a general solution to qualitative versions of Zeno's paradox. The utility of these ideas is illustrated by a rational reconstruction of the pruning algorithms used in FROB, a working AI program.
... one to allow reasoning with partial information : Axiom 5 ( InitialStates Existence ) | InitialStates ( R ) / 2 1 . ... We need to refine the notion of paths to include the notion of a legal path : Axiom 7 ( Path legality ) A path p ...
Practical Reasoning Skills Zachary Seech ... 35 In light of the fact that , 24 Incubation in problem solving , 246 , 249 , 251 Index to Legal Periodicals , 222 Inductive strength , 141 deductive certainty vs. , 66-91 evaluating , 66-72 ...
In the case of logic , all that the syllogism can do is to indicate the consistency of our reasoning along any line of thought we are following . Logic cannot furnish us with knowledge any better than law can equip us for success in ...
0.8 LOGICAL FORM AND VALIDITY The logician studies mathematical , scientific , theological , and legal arguments with equal ease . This is because he is not concerned with the subject matter of an argument , but only with the reasoning ...
24Friedrich Kratochwil , Rules , Norms , and decisions : On the Conditions of Practical and Legal Reasoning in International wi - YNN + - 1 + mondo hop Relations and Domestic Affairs ( New York : Cambridge University 48.
20 Ibid . , p . 96 , and The Concept of Law , pp . 79-89 ; also Gauthier , Practical Reasoning , pp . 174-176 . 211 am not suggesting , of course , that all forms and all degrees of coercion are always justified .
This text, appropriate for either a college course or for the general reader, is a detailed presentation of a nine phase procedure for successful decision making. The sequential process approach is applied to personal and interpersonal problems and to legal and business decision making. Each phase is accompanied by exercises which prompt students or readers to use their new skills in solving their own problems. Examples for discussion are selected from recent newspaper and magazine articles.
Almost all of us have some familiarity with the general rules and the procedures of legal reasoning . Newspaper editorials acquaint us with their judgments regarding the nature of the law . Television enactments portray the actual court ...
GRECH , A. P. Development and use of micro - reproduction in the libraries of the legal profession . Micro News 57 ( Mar. 1962 ) , 158 . 372. ... HOHFELD , W. N. Some fundamental legal conceptions as applied in judicial reasoning .
By the same token , legal affairs frequently require the use of precising definitions . ... 15.3 Inductive Reasoning in Law Law , like almost any other area of human activity , involves both inductive and deductive reasoning .
Proceedings of the Colloquium, 'Logic and Argumentation', Amsterdam, 14-17 June 1994
Paperback. This volume finds its origin in a colloquium on Logic and Argumentation, held in June 1994 in Amsterdam and sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The papers included have been selected for the role they can play in illuminating current thinking about the various kinds of relations between logic and argumentation.Aiming to provide some background to the academic endeavour of exploring the connections between logic and argumentation this volume offers the reader some representative specimina of current thinking about this subject.
Non - monotonic Reasoning . Logical foundations of Common - sense . ... Amsterdam : Compute - Law Institute VU , pp . 10-20 . ... A dialogical model of legal reasoning ' . In : C. Gruetters e.a. ( eds . ) . Legal Knowledge Based Systems ...
