Reasoning with Rules: An Essay on Legal Reasoning and Its Underlying Logic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792343257)

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.

Author: Jaap Hage
ISBN-10: 0792343255
ISBN-13: 9780792343257
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 11/30/1996
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d