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On Legal Teleological Reasoning

Adam Wyner Orcid Logo, Tomasz Zurek

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume: 379

Swansea University Author: Adam Wyner Orcid Logo

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Given a common pool of facts and legal rules, Judges on a panel may form different justifications for decisions, which are then voted upon. It is clear that a Judge’s personal values and purposes play in developing their opinion, which is a form of teleological reasoning. The paper introduces the Va...

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Published in: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
ISBN: 9781643684727 9781643684734
ISSN: 0922-6389 1879-8314
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