Justifying Particular Reasoning in a Legal Context

Particular reasoning is arguably the most common type of legal reasoning. Neil MacCormick proposed that, in a legal context, justifiable particular reasoning has to be universalizable. This paper aims to: (1) investigate MacCormick’s thesis; (2) explain how a particular can ever be universal by dra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jingjing Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Windsor 2020-08-01
Series:Informal Logic
Online Access:https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/5994