Premises and Conclusions Symbolic Logic for Legal Analysis

Name: Premises and Conclusions Symbolic Logic for Legal Analysis
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ISBN: 9780132626354

ISBN-10: 0132626357

ISBN-13: 9780132626354

Edition: 1997

Authors: Howard Pospesel, Robert E. Rodes

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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,…

Book details

List price: $216.60
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/5/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface



Introduction


Arguments


Key Terms


Logic and the Law



Propositional Logic


And


If


Not


Or


Iff


Derived Rules


Truth Tables



Predicate Logic


Symbolization


Proofs


Propositional Analogues


Interpretations


Relations


Identity


Analysis by Instantiation



Disputations


What are Disputations? Denials


Pleading


Distinguo


Affirmative Defenses



Pitfalls and Paradoxes


Necessary and Sufficient Conditions


Problematic Universal Statements


The Paradox of Material Implication


Quantifier Scope


Existential Import



Intensional Contexts


Extensional and Intensional Contexts


Recognizing Intensional Contexts


Examples and Strategies


Intent, Risk, and Inchoate Crimes



Conclusion


Analogical and Deductive Legal Reasoning


Appendices


Deontic Logic


Formation Rules


Alternative Symbols


Solutions to Starred Exercises


Rules of Inference


Index


Table of Cases


Table of Statutes and Rules