Open AccessIncommensurability, proportionality, and defeasibility
Author(s) -
Bruce Chapman
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
law probability and risk
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.524
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1470-840X
pISSN - 1470-8396
DOI - 10.1093/lpr/mgt008
Subject(s) - proportionality (law) , value (mathematics) , social psychology , law , psychology , epistemology , mathematics , political science , statistics , philosophy
At least in some cases, the values confronted in legal decision-making appear to be incommensurable. Some legal theorists resist incommensurability because they fear that this presents an overwhelming obstacle to rational decision-making. By offering a close analysis of proportionality and, more particularly, measures of proportional value satisfaction, I show that this fear is unfounded. Comparat...
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