Legal Reason: The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument

by Lloyd L. Weinreb

Book Overview

Legal Reason describes and explains analogical reasoning, the distinctive feature of legal argument. It challenges the prevailing view that analogical reasoning is a logically flawed, defective form of deductive reasoning. Drawing on work in epistemology and cognitive psychology, the book shows that analogical reasoning in the law is the same as that used by everyone routinely in ordinary life, and that it is a valid form of reasoning, derived from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316607321
• ISBN13: 9781316607329
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.7"