Premises and Conclusions: Symbolic Logic for Legal Analysis

Premises and Conclusions: Symbolic Logic for Legal Analysis

Description

This solidly written book explains the elements of contemporary symbolic logic, and examines the ways in which it illuminates the structure of legal reasoning and clarifies various legal problems. Offering a clear and succinct presentation of standard propositional and predicate logic, it presents the elements of standard logic and applies those techniques to legal materials. It covers the use of standard logic in legal argument, including the denial or distinguishing of premises and the rules of pleading, and makes extensive use of legal materials, cases and statutes, in both examples and exercises. Readers are also given strategies for handling major legal problems in standard logic, including ways for treating conditions contrary to fact, necessary and sufficient conditions, result within the risk, and intent. For logicians and philosophers of law.

ISBN

9780132626354

Publication Date

1997

Publisher

Pearson (Prentice Hall)

Keywords

legal analysis, symbolic logic

Disciplines

Law | Philosophy

Premises and Conclusions: Symbolic Logic for Legal Analysis


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