M. Abraham, Professor Dr. Dov M. Gabbay of King’s College London Department of Computer Science, and Professor Dr. Uri J. Schild of Bar Ilan University Department of Computer Science, have published Contrary-to-time Conditionals in Talmudic Logic, forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law. Here is the abstract:
We consider conditionals of the form A ⇒ B where A depends on the future and B on the present and past. We examine models for such conditionals arising in Talmudic legal cases. We call such conditionals contrary to time conditionals.
Three main aspects will be investigated:
1. Inverse causality from future to past, where a future condition can influence a legal event in the past (this is a man-made causality).
2. Comparison with similar features in modern law.
3. New types of temporal logics arising from modelling the Talmudic examples.
We shall see that we need a new temporal logic, which we call Talmudic temporal logic with linear open advancing future and parallel changing past, based on two parameters for time.
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