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JURIX
2008
13 years 5 months ago
More on Presumptions and Burdens of Proof
This paper extends our previous logical analysis of presumptions and burden of proof by studying the force of a presumption once counterevidence has been offered. In the jurisprude...
Henry Prakken, Giovanni Sartor
AIL
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
A dialogical theory of presumption
The notions of burden of proof and presumption are central to law, but as noted in McCormick on Evidence, they are also the slipperiest of any of the family of legal terms employe...
Douglas Walton
ICAIL
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Dialogues about the burden of proof
This paper analyses the phenomenon of a shift of the burden of proof in legal persuasion dialogues. Some sample dialogues are analysed of types of situations where such a shift ma...
Henry Prakken, Chris Reed, Douglas Walton
COMMA
2006
13 years 5 months ago
The Carneades Argumentation Framework - Using Presumptions and Exceptions to Model Critical Questions
Abstract. In 2005, Gordon and Walton presented initial ideas for a computational model of defeasible argument [12, 26], which builds on and elaborates Walton's theory of argum...
Thomas F. Gordon, Douglas Walton
ARGMAS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Burden of Proof in Deliberation Dialogs
The literature in argumentation and artificial intelligence has distinguished five types of burden of proof in persuasion dialogs, but there appears to have been no serious invest...
Douglas Walton