In this paper we present an approach to abductive reasoning in law by examining it in the context of an argumentation scheme for practical reasoning. We present a particular scheme, based on an established scheme for practical reasoning, that can be used to reason abductively about how an agent might have acted to reach a particular scenario, and the motivations for doing so. Plausibility here ...

Frank Ramsey made important contributions to philosophy, economics, logic, and mathematics. He was the son of a Cambridge mathematician, and from an early age he was well known to members of the Cambridge intellectual community. He received a degree in mathematics from Trinity College in 1923, became a Fellow of King’s College in 1924, and in 1926 he was made a University Lecturer in Mathematic...