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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2020-08-01
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Series: | Informal Logic |
Online Access: | https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/5994 |