The Three Faces of Defeasibility in the Law法律中可撤销性的三种表现形式.pdfVIP

Ratio Juris. Vol. 17 No. 1 March 2004 (118–39) The Three Faces of Defeasibility in the Law HENRY PRAKKEN AND GIOVANNI SARTOR Abstract. In this paper we will analyse the issue of defeasibility in the law, taking into account research carried out in philosophy, artificial intelligence and legal theory. We will adopt a very general idea of legal defeasibility, in which we will include all different ways in which certain legal conclusions may need to be aban- doned, though no mistake was made in deriving them. We will argue that defeasi- bilit