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Studies in Legal LogicComparing Alternatives

Studies in Legal Logic: Comparing Alternatives Chapter 4 1. RIGHT AND BETTER When your old car has broken down and you must decide which brand your new one should be, your main problem will probably not be of a logical nature. Nevertheless, if you have to make a choice between for instance a Mercedes, a Volvo, and a Porsche, the logic underlying the decision is interesting. Each brand of car has advantages and disadvantages, and rational decision making requires a form of balancing these (dis)advantages. The easiest case would be if there were a common scale against which all brands could be measured, because then the only ‘logic’ involved would be to pick the brand with the highest score. However, when this method is not available, other ways to rationalize the decision making process must be looked for. Another way to deal with this kind of question is to transform it into the issue whether one should buy a particular brand of car, for instance a Volvo. Logically this would boil down to balancing the reasons for and against buying a Volvo. It is well imaginable that if the question is framed this way, the reasons for buying a Volvo outweigh the reasons against buying http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Studies in Legal LogicComparing Alternatives

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Studies in Legal Logic — Jan 1, 2005
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
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© Springer 2005
ISBN
978-1-4020-3517-3
Pages
101 –134
DOI
10.1007/1-4020-3552-7_5
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Chapter 4 1. RIGHT AND BETTER When your old car has broken down and you must decide which brand your new one should be, your main problem will probably not be of a logical nature. Nevertheless, if you have to make a choice between for instance a Mercedes, a Volvo, and a Porsche, the logic underlying the decision is interesting. Each brand of car has advantages and disadvantages, and rational decision making requires a form of balancing these (dis)advantages. The easiest case would be if there were a common scale against which all brands could be measured, because then the only ‘logic’ involved would be to pick the brand with the highest score. However, when this method is not available, other ways to rationalize the decision making process must be looked for. Another way to deal with this kind of question is to transform it into the issue whether one should buy a particular brand of car, for instance a Volvo. Logically this would boil down to balancing the reasons for and against buying a Volvo. It is well imaginable that if the question is framed this way, the reasons for buying a Volvo outweigh the reasons against buying

Published: Jan 1, 2005

Keywords: Similar Reason; Case Base Reasoning; Individual Weight; Logical Ground; Contributive Reason

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