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020			_a9781107153462 (hardback)
041			_aEnglish.
082	0	0	_a340.11 _bWEI-L
100	1		_aWeinreb, Lloyd L., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLegal reason : _bthe use of analogy in legal argument / _cLloyd L. Weinreb, Harvard Law School.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2016.
300			_ax, 188p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 159-184) and index.
505	0		_aSteamboats, broadcast transmissions, and electronic eavesdropping -- Analogical legal reasoning -- Objections -- Analogical reasoning, legal education, and the rule law.
520			_aLegal 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 the innate human capacity to recognize the general in the particular. The use of analogical reasoning in law is dictated by the nature of law, which calls for the application of general rules to particular facts. Critiques of the first edition of the book are addressed directly and objections answered in a new chapter. Written for scholars, students, and persons interested in law, Legal Reason is written in accessible prose, with examples drawn from the law and everyday experience.
546			_aEnglish.
650		0	_aLaw _xMethodology.
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