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- Title
Judge Rosenbergs Werte - Wie ein niederrangiger Wert einen höherrangigen übertreffen kann.
- Authors
Philipps, Lothar
- Abstract
"His ideology was simple: government over business, the individual over government, the environment over everything. And the Indians, give them whatever they want." This is how John Grisham, in his thriller "The Pelican Brief, depicted the fictive Supreme Court Judge Rosenberg. Rosenberg's values were ordered in a mere "ordinal" way. Which means: each value ranks above the next ones, but to which amount is left open. This leaves room to a problem: what is to do when a high value would be realised to a low degree - and a low value to high degree. (There is no product with a mere ordinal number such as "first", "second", "third", etc.) The American computer scientist Ronald Yager, a proponent of fuzzy logic, has proposed a plain method of finding rational decisions within ordinal scales. The article applies his method to a law case that may arise in the Pelican State (Louisiana) after the explosion of a drill platform.
- Subjects
JUDGES in literature; PELICAN Brief, The (Book)
- Publication
Slovenian Law Review, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 1/2, p199
- ISSN
1581-9531
- Publication type
Abstract