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Defeasible Semantics For L4, Guido Governatori, Meng Weng (Huang Mingrong) Wong
Defeasible Semantics For L4, Guido Governatori, Meng Weng (Huang Mingrong) Wong
Centre for Computational Law
The importance of defeasibility for legal reasoning has been investigated for a long time (see among other [10, 3, 11]). This notion mostly concerns the issue that textual provisions of (legal) norms typically provide prima facie conditions for their applicability, but to understand a norm in full, we have to evaluate the norms in the context in which the norm is used and to see if other norms prevent it either to apply or to be effective. In other words, when evaluating norms, we must account for possible (prima facie) conflicts and exceptions. Indeed, in general, norms first provide the …