Litigation logic : a practical guide to effective argument /
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Chicago :
American Bar Association,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- The legal logic flow chart
- The rules of legal logic
- Prohibited arguments
- Ad hominem (abusive) : personal attacks
- Ad hominem (circumstantial) : bias and prejudice
- Tu quoque : saying one thing, doing another
- Poisoning the well
- Appeal to authority
- Accent : emphasizing certain words
- Equivocation : shifts in meaning
- Amphiboly : which meaning is intended?
- Hypostatization : expressing abstractions
- Appealing to ignorance
- Pity : appealing to sympathy
- Hurling epithets
- Humor and ridicule
- Appealing to the mob
- Slippery slope
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Wrongs rarely make a right
- Threats, force, and fear
- Begging the question
- The complex question
- False cause
- False analogy
- Either/or : hobson's choice
- Genetic : attacking the origin
- Red herrings
- Straw man
- Division : painting with the same brush
- Composition : one bad apple
- Sweeping generalizations
- Hasty generalizations
- Lies, damn lies, and statistics