Reasoning with rules : an essay on legal reasoning and its underlying logic
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Reasoning with rules : an essay on legal reasoning and its underlying logic
（Law and philosophy library, v. 27）
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1997
- : softcover
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"Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1997"--T.p. verso of softcover
Publisher of softcover: Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media
Kluwer Academic Publishers was merged into Springer Science+Business Media
Bibliography: p. 255-259
Includes indexes
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Description
Rule-applying legal arguments are traditionally treated as a kind of syllogism. Such a treatment overlooks the fact that legal principles and rules are not statements which describe the world, but rather means by which humans impose structure on the world. Legal rules create legal consequences, they do not describe them. This has consequences for the logic of rule- and principle-applying arguments, the most important of which may be that such arguments are defeasible. This book offers an extensive analysis of the role of rules and principles in legal reasoning, which focuses on the close relationship between rules, principles, and reasons. Moreover, it describes a logical theory which assigns a central place to the notion of reasons for and against a conclusion, and which is especially suited to deal with rules and principles.
Table of Contents
Preface. I: Introduction. II: Of Reasons. A. Philosophical Roots. B. A Causal Account of Reasons. C. Reasons and Principles. D. Kinds of Reasons. III: Reasoning with Rules. IV: Reason-Based Logic. V: Applications of Reason-Based Logic. VI: Concluding Observations. A. Possible Amendments to Reason-Based Logic. B. Semantics for Rules. C. Reason-Based Logic in Comparison. D. Two Metaphors of Reasoning. References. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.
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