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Legal Technique, EH 408
Ever since Justice Holmes asserted that the life of the law has
not been logic: it has been experience, lawyers and judges in the
world have minimized the importance of formal logic for
understanding law and legal reasoning.
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such virulent opposition to formalism. And it is this aspect of logic
which was so severely downplayed throughout the twentieth
century. Yet even a rudimentary understanding of deductive logic
gives
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1 See Douglas Lind, Logic and Legal Reasoning, (2nd ed., The National Judicial College Press, 2007)
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