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In this chapter I start the investigation of a second way of modelling reasoning with defeasible rules; this is the method of allowing for incompatible solutions to a problem and choosing the exceptional one if it exists. In this method exceptions can be left implicit: no use has to be made of exception or applicability clauses, since exceptions are identified as a result of the choice. As already mentioned in Chapter 3, when applied to legislation this method corresponds to application of the legal collision rule Lex Specialis Derogat Legi Generali.
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Prakken, H. (1997). Preferring the Most Specific Argument. In: Logical Tools for Modelling Legal Argument. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8975-8_6
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