On the role of prototypes in appellate legal argument (abstract)
L. Thorne McCarty · 1991
Although most of the work on ArtificialIntelligence and Law today is oriented towards the development of pract ical systems, there is a small group of researchers who are primarily interested in theoretical questions: How much of legal reasoning can be reduced to reasoning wit h rules?Is this rule-based component significant, or trivial?How is it possible to rewon with cases at all? Are legal concepts just like ordinary common sense concepts, or do they have special characteristics?