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The paper proposes an analysis and a formalisation of factor-based reasoning. After examining the relevance of factors in legal reasoning, binary and scalable factors (dimensions) are distinguished and the relations between them are discussed. An account of a fortiori reasoning with both types of factors is developed.

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    Giovanni Sartor

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This article reports ideas which are discussed and developed in Sartor (2005). We refer to the latter work for the theoretical framework in which our analysis of factors is embedded.

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Sartor, G. Reasoning with Factors. Argumentation 19, 417–432 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-005-0509-8

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