This video takes a quick tour of the logic diagram for the statutory rules involved in the Lab’s Vaccine/Injury Project (“V/IP”). We model the reasoning of the special masters who decide these cases, and study their reasoning from evidence to findings of fact. In this project, we focus on the “causation-in-fact” condition of the Off-Table Cases.
As background, you may wish to read about Rule Tree Diagrams.
The short video above touches on the following points:
- Distinguishing procedural and substantive conditions
- The focus of the Lab’s research within the rule tree
- Distinguishing the elements of the prima facie case from the defeater of the affirmative defense
- The functional aspect of the logic tree: the use of the tree as a template for modeling particular decisions, and the role of variable names for global subjects
- The statutory rules for the “Off-Table Injury” cases investigated by the Lab
