TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bosanac,Paul
TI  - Litigation logic: a practical guide to effective argument
SN  - 9781604425710
AV  - KF 8915 .B577 2009
U1  - 347.73/75 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - American Bar Association
KW  - Trial practice
KW  - United States
KW  - Logic
KW  - Local
KW  - Forensic oratory
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -