Full Description
Logic for Lawyers offers an introduction to logic, tailored to legal practice.
Logic is a basic tool for the legal professional. Law is an argumentative practice and therefore lawyers need to know how to argue. This book discusses the classical topics of logic - schemes of argumentation, syllogisms, fallacies and propositional logic - always with the use of practical legal examples. This book pays special attention to the role of logic in rhetoric too, as any lawyer would want others to accept the argument.
Furthermore, this book has an in-depth section which discusses insights from modern logic - such as predicate logic and modal logic - again while using practical legal examples.
This makes it an indispensable reference work for every legal practitioner.
Contents
1 Dare to think; PART I - INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC FOR LAWYERS; 2 Pro-et-contra surveys; 3 The syllogism; 4 Fallacies; 5 A formal language; 6 Propositional logic; Testing consistency and validity - The tableau method; 8 Logic and rhetoric; PART II - EXTENSIONS AND ALTERNATIVES; 9 Modern logic; 10 Predicate logic; 11 Modal logic; POSTSCRIPT AND APPENDICES; 12 Postscript - The value of not knowing; Appendix I - Truth tables; Appendix II - Rules of inference for the tableau method; Appendix III - Stepwise testing of consistency and validity using the tableau method; Appendix IV - Rules of inference in natural deduction: propositional logic; Appendix V - Rules of inference in natural deduction: predicate logic; Appendix VI - Suggestions for further reading; Word of thanks; References; Index
