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Logic, Probability, and Presumptions in Legal Reasoning
About this book
At least since plato and Aristotle, thinkers have pondered the relationship between philosophical arguments and the "sophistical" arguments offered by the Sophists -- who were the first professional lawyers. Judges wield substantial political power, and the justifications they offer for their decisions are a vital means by which citizens can assess the legitimacy of how that power is exercised. However, to evaluate judicial justifications requires close attention to the method of reasoning behind decisions. This new collection illuminates and explains the political and moral importance in justifying the exercise of judicial power.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Symbolic Logic: A Razor-Edged Tool for Drafting and Interpreting Legal Documents
- Exemplary Reasoning: Semantics, Pragmatics, and the Rational Force of Legal Argument by Analogy
- Subjective Probability and the Paradox of the Gatecrasher
- The Place of Logic in the Law
- Logical Method and Law
- The Laws of Probability and the Law of the Land
- Reason and Logic in the Common Law
- Logic and Law
- Law Logic
- The Evidence or the Event? On Judicial Proof and the Acceptability of Verdicts
- Logic in the Law
- A Note on Symbolic Logic and the Law
- Syntactic Ambiguity, Conceptual Vagueness, and the Lawyer's Hard Thinking
- Trial by Mathematics: Precision and Ritual in the Legal Process
- Acknowledgments