Common knowledge in legal reasoning about evidence

International Commentary on Evidence

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Walton, Douglas ^a   Macagno, Fabrizio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crime scene; Defeasible reasoning; Generalization; Presumption; Wigmore chart

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645866463     PISSN: 15544567     EISSN: 15544567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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