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Towards a Logical Analysis of the Judgment on Facts

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Deontic Logic in Computer Science (DEON 2010)

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The starting point of the following remarks is that a fundamental aspect of judicial decisions (mainly in trial courts but often also in appellate courts) is the judgment about the facts in issue. In a sense, actually, judicial decisions derive from a sort of combination of legal and factual judgments. Lawyers -and logicians- usually deal with the legal dimension of these decisions and analyze the features and the structure of legal arguments and of legal justifications of a decision. However, the factual dimension of such decisions is no less important since -as it is commonly said- no decision is just if it is based upon the wrong facts.

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  1. University of Pavia, Italy

    Michele Taruffo

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  1. Queensland Research Laboratory, National ICT Australia, 4067, St Lucia, QLD, Australia

    Guido Governatori

  2. European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana, 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence, Italy, and University of Bologna, Via Zamboni, 33, 40126, Bologna, Italy

    Giovanni Sartor

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Taruffo, M. (2010). Towards a Logical Analysis of the Judgment on Facts. In: Governatori, G., Sartor, G. (eds) Deontic Logic in Computer Science. DEON 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6181. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14183-6_3

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