Contents
Preface ...................................................................................
vii
Labels.....................................................................................
xvi
Table of Legislation.............................................................
xx
Table of Cases .....................................................................
xxiii
Table of Names ....................................................................
xxx
Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Outline .................................................................
1
Purpose.....................................................................................
1
Legal Tasks ...............................................................................
1
Legal Reasoning ........................................................................
2
Legal Method ............................................................................
14
Part 2 Rationality
2.1: Introduction
Chapter 2 Rationality...........................................................
15
Introduction...............................................................................
15
Being Rational ...........................................................................
16
Being Irrational ..........................................................................
18
2.2: Conditional Statements
Chapter 3 Analysing Legal Rules .....................................
20
Introduction...............................................................................
20
Structure of a Rule .....................................................................
20
Relationship Between Rules........................................................
27
2.3: Logical Reasoning
Chapter 4 Logical Reasoning............................................
29
Introduction...............................................................................
29
Deduction..................................................................................
29
Induction ...................................................................................
30
Abduction .................................................................................
31
Analogy.....................................................................................
32
Probability .................................................................................
32
Comparison...............................................................................
33
Chapter 5 Deduction ...........................................................
36
Introduction...............................................................................
36