Using the Argumentation System

Abstract

This chapter completes the discussion of the argumentation system developed in the Chapters 6–8. First, Section 10.1 compares its use for modelling the choice approach to exceptions to the various ways of modelling the exception clause approach, after which Section 10.2 discusses its prospects for implementation in computer programs. The rest of the chapter illustrates the role of the system as a tool in modelling legal argument. In Section 10.3 the system will be applied to some issues raised in the Chapters 2 and 3, and in Section 10.4 it will be used to give a logical analysis of some aspects of implemented AI-and-law systems. Finally, in Section 10.5, the system will be placed in the context of a four-layered overall view on argumentation.