Summary: Cognitive Area Brown Bag Series 2005 © Kevin D. Ashley. 2005
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Hypothesis formation and testing in
an interpretive domain
Kevin D. Ashley
Professor of Law and Intelligent Systems
Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh
With thanks to:
Vincent Aleven, CMU, co-PI,
Niels Pinkwart, CMU, and
Collin Lynch, ISP
Research sponsored by NSF Award IIS-0412830
Cognitive Area Brown Bag Series 2005 © Kevin D. Ashley. 2005
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Outline
· What is a hypothesis? What are hypotheticals?
· Examples from Supreme Court oral arguments
· Role of hypotheticals in legal reasoning
· Why is this kind of reasoning important?

Source: Ashley, Kevin D. - Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences