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1 - Legal Reasoning
   Copyright
   Preface

5 - Contents
   Part 1 Introduction
   Part 2 Rationality
   Part 3 Irrationality
   Part 4 Method
   Bibliography

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11 - Label

15 - Introduction
   1.1 Purpose
   1.3 Legal Method

17 - Rationality
   2.1 Introduction
   2.2 Being Rational
   2.3 Being Irrational

20 - Conditional Statements
   3.1 Introduction
   3.2 Elements
   3.3 Consequences
   3.4 Conditional Statements
   3.5 Syllogism
   3.6 Diagrams
   3.7 Appendix: Rule of Law

26 - Logical Reasoning
   4.1 Introduction
   4.2 Deduction
   4.3 Induction
   4.4 Abduction
   4.5 Inference
   4.6 Comparison

30 - Induction
   6.1 Introduction
   6.3 Ascertaining Values
   6.4 Ascertaining Causal Laws

40 - Abduction
   7.1 Introduction
   7.2 Nature
   7.3 Uses

43 - Inference
   8.1 Introduction
   8.2 1. Patterns of Behaviour
   8.3 Individual Behaviour
   8.4 General Behaviour
   8.5 2. Causation
   8.6 3. Nature of Inference

55 - Probability
   9.1 Introduction
   9.2 Measuring Probability
   9.3 Applying Probability
   9.4 Assigning Probability
   9.5 Deriving Probability
   9.6 Fallacies in Probability

80 - Policy
   10.1 Introduction
   10.2 Levels of Policy
   10.3 Basis of Policy
   10.4 Nature of Policy
   10.5 Model for Policy
   10.6 Derivatives of Policy

96 - Nature of Net Benefit
   11.1 Introduction
   11.2 Net Benefit Rule
   11.3 Operating Costs and Benefits
   11.4 Changeover Costs and Benefits
   11.5 Illustration

109 - Measurement of Net Benefit
   12.1 Introduction
   12.2 Methods of Measurement
   12.3Problem of Measurement
   12.4 Attempts to Alleviate Problems
   12.5 Conclusion

117 - Causation
   13.1 Introduction
   13.2 Determinism
   13.3 Science
   13.4 Behaviour in General
   13.5 Law in Particular
   13.6 Uncertainty

143 - Evaluation
   14.1 Introduction
   14.2 Definition of Values
   14.3 Deployment of Values
   14.4 Outline

147 - Classification of Values
   15.1 Introduction
   15.2 Deontological and Teleological Values
   15.3Absolute and Relative Values

155 - Choice of Values
   16.1 Introduction
   16.2 Unity of Values
   16.3 Diversity of Values
   16.4 Compromise View
   16.5 Choice of Values

181 - Social Choice
   17.1 Introduction
   17.2 Making Law
   17.3 Interpreting Law

185 - Social Choice: Making Law
   18.1 Introduction
   18.2 Direct Democracy
   18.3 Representative Democracy
   18.4 Deliberative Democracy
   18.5 Social Democracy
   18.6 Conclusion

200 - Social Choice: Interpreting Law
   19.1 Introduction
   19.2 1. Originalism
   19.3 2. Metademocracy
   19.4 Deference
   19.5 Reconstructionism
   19.6 Pragmatism
   19.7 Disciplinarianism
   19.8 3. Judicial Legitimacy
   19.9 4. Originalism Reinterpreted

230 - Precedent
   20.1 Introduction
   20.2 Nature of Precedent
   20.3 Preserving Rules
   20.4 Preserving Policy
   20.5 Avoiding Costs
   20.6 Overruling Precedent

241 - Maxims
   21.1 Introduction
   21.2 Promoting Meanings
   21.2 Identifying Meanings

245 - Observation
   22.1 Introduction
   22.2 Observation by a Witness
   22.3 Observation by Equipment
   22.4 Observation by the Court
   22.5 Observation by an Institution

251 - Irrationality
   23.1 Introduction
   23.2 Psychology
   23.3 Sociology
   23.4 Economics
   23.5 Philosophy
   23.6 Situational Factors

269 - Legal Method
   24.1 Introduction
   24.2 Absence of Method
   24.3 Need for Method
   24.4 Nature of Method

279 - Model for Organising Law
   25.1 Introduction
   25.2 Elements
   25.3 Consequences
   25.4 Conditional Statements
   25.5 Diagram

282 - Model for Forming Law
   26.1 Introduction
   26.2 Making Law
   26.3 Interpreting Law
   26.4 Statement of the Model
   26.5 Justification for the Model
   26.6 Applications of the Model

289 - Options
   27.1 Introduction
   27.2 Nature of Options
   27.3 Making Law
   27.4 Interpreting Law
   27.5 Rationale

303 - Reasons
   28.1 Introduction
   28.2 Making Law
   28.3 Interpreting Law

313 - Decision
   29.1 Introduction
   29.2 Making Law
   29.3 Interpreting Law

315 - Model for Using Law
   30.1 Introduction
   30.2 Basic Propositions
   30.3 Conditional Statement
   30.4 Syllogism
   30.5 Model
   30.6 Uses of the Model

320 - Applying Law to Facts
   31.1 Introduction
   31.2 Rules
   31.3 Syllogism
   31.4 Diagram

326 - Applying Law to Facts
   31.1 Introduction
   31.2 Rules
   31.3 Syllogism
   31.4 Diagram

332 - Establishing Facts
   32.1 Introduction
   32.2 1. Proving Facts
   32.3 Versions of Truth
   32.4 Probability of Truth
   32.5 Standard of Truth
   32.6 2. Creating Facts

338 - Bibliography
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