Legal argumentation and evidence / Douglas N. Walton.
2002
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Title
Legal argumentation and evidence / Douglas N. Walton.
Published
University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
K213 .W35 2002
ISBN
0271021772 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xvii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)48376253
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-364) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xiii
1.
Special Features Of Argumentation In A Legal System
1
Legal Rules and Particular Cases
3
Interpretation of Statutes and Documents
6
Stages of a Trial
9
Civil Law, Criminal Law, and Burden of Proof
11
Evidence
15
Relevance and Admissibility
19
Testimony of Witnesses
23
Expert Testimony
25
Examination
26
Dependence on Precedents
29
2.
Forms Of Argument Commonly Used In Law
34
Argument from Analogy
35
Argument from an Established Rule
39
Argument from Sign and Abductive Argument
41
Argument from Position to Know
45
Argument from Verbal Classification
51
Argument from Commitment
53
Practical Reasoning
56
Argument from Personal Attack (Ad Hominem Argument)
59
The Slippery Slope Argument
63
Other Important Forms of Argument
66
3.
Circumstantial Evidence
73
The McCormick Criterion
74
The Jewish Classical Law Criterion
77
Bentham on Circumstantial Evidence
80
Patterson's Criterion
83
Wigmore on Direct Evidence and Autoptic Proference
85
Wigmore on Circumstantial and Testimonial Evidence
88
The Hope Head Case
91
The Five Criteria Summarized
93
How Useful is the Concept of Circumstantial Evidence?
97
Logical Difficulties of Circumstantial Evidence
99
4.
Plausibility And Probability
103
A Third Type of Reasoning
105
Plausibility and Probability
108
Wigmore on Logical Inference and Probative Value
114
Locke on Plausibility and Degrees of Assent
122
Bentham on Plausibility and Evidence
124
Plausibility and Casuistry
128
Plausible Reasoning in the Ancient World
133
Carneades' Theory of Plausibility
138
Criteria and Applications of Carneades' Theory
141
Why the Neglect of Plausible Reasoning?
146
5.
The Dialectical Framework Of Legal Argumentation
151
Implicature and Conversational Postulates
153
Rational Persuasion in the Trial
156
Normative Models of Argumentation
160
Persuasion Dialogue
165
Other Types of Dialogue
171
Peirastic Dialogue and Extastic Dialogue
174
Relevance and Dialectical Shifts
180
The Fair Trial and the Witch-Hunt
184
A Dialectical Theory of Statutory Interpretation
187
Argumentation Schemes, Fallacies, and Legal Logic
194
6.
A Plausibilistic Theory Of Evidence
199
Components of the New Theory
200
Evidence and Argument
205
The Probative Function
214
Ancient Roots of the New Theory
216
Advantages of The Plausibilistic Theory
223
Scientific Evidence
227
Logical and Legal Relevance
230
Legal Evidence, Credibility, and Plausibility
234
Expert Testimony as Evidence
239
Problems and Conclusions
243
7.
Relevance In Persuasion Dialogue
248
Persuasion Dialogue
249
Chaining of Arguments
252
Rules of Dialogue and Fallacies
258
The Fallacy of Irrelevant Conclusion
260
The Method of Argument Extrapolation
262
Testing an Actual Example
266
How the Method Should be Applied
269
Questions Raised
271
Application to Legal Cases
274
Arguments and Explanations
279
8.
Multi-Agent Argumentation And Credibility
282
Formal Dialogue Systems in Logic
283
The Ad Hominem and Ad Verecundiam Fallacies
287
Labeled Deductive Systems
296
Multi-Agent Systems
298
Adding Agents to Formal Dialectical Structures
301
Evaluating Fallacies and Blunders
304
How Should `Agent' be Defined in Formal Dialectic?
306
Dialectical Shifts and Relevance
308
The Solution to the Problem
313
Conclusions
317
9.
How To Use The New Method
321
The New Method
322
Inference Forms and Critical Questions
325
Arguments Depending on Testimony and Credibility
329
Verbal Arguments and Critical Questions
334
The Trial as Persuasion Dialogue
335
Argument Diagramming
338
The Formal Structure of Diagramming
342
Formalizing the New System
345
The Subtleties of Peirastic Dialogue
348
The Current Problems with Relevance
350
Bibliography
357
Index
365