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Litigation logic : a practical guide to effective argument /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bosanac, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : American Bar Association, [2009]
Subjects:
Trial practice > United States.
Forensic oratory.
Logic.
Trial practice.
United States.
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
  • Two 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.