Dialectical argumentation with argumentation schemes: An approach to legal logicBart VerheijAbstract
This paper describes an approach to legal logic based on the formal
analysis of argumentation schemes. Argumentation schemes - a notion
borrowed from the field of argumentation theory - are a kind of
generalized rules of inference, in the sense that they express that given
certain premises a particular conclusion can be drawn. However,
argumentation schemes need not concern strict, abstract, necessarily valid
patterns of reasoning, but can be defeasible, concrete and contingently
valid, i.e. valid in certain contexts or under certain circumstances. A
method is presented to analyze argumentation schemes and it is shown how
argumentation schemes can be embedded in a formal model of dialectical
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