Analogy in Legal Discourse

Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 94 (2):188-201 (2008)
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The aim of the paper is to show what the logical structure of reasoning by analogy in legal discourse is. Recently, two attempts - due to Brewer and Weinreb - have been made to explain analogical arguments. I criticize them both. Next, against the background of several examples, I reconstruct the general structure of analogy. The structure is taken as a starting point for developing a logical conception of analogical reasoning. It is my claim that analogy is partially reducible to the process of balancing.

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