The Ontology of Legal Possibilities and Legal Potentialities

Ontologies in a legal expert system must be processed to suit all possible user cases within the field of law of the system. From the logical premises of a deductive system of express rules of law, legal ontologies may be implied to encompass the combinatorial explosion of possible cases that may lack one or more of the express antecedents in the deductive rule system. Express ontologies in inductive and abductive premises that are associated with the deductive antecedents, may also be adjusted by implication to suit the combinatorial explosion of possible cases. Implied legal ontologies may be determined to suit the user's case and its legal consequences. The method of this determination and the processing of express black letter law accordingly, is considered by reference to the supplementation of ontology by logic and the supplementation of logic by ontology, in the legal domain; three bases of this method are discussed: law-making power, prior analytics, and the pillars of tru...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICAIL
• Authors: Pamela N. Gray
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, ICAIL 2007, Laid Down, Legal, Legal Ontologies