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2. Reason / E. Argument / 3. Analogy

6574	Legal reasoning is analogical, not deductive [Fogelin]
	Full Idea: There is almost universal agreement that legal reasoning is fundamentally analogical, not deductive, in character.
	From: Robert Fogelin (Walking the Tightrope of Reason [2003], Ch.2)
	A reaction: This raises the question of whether analogy can be considered as 'reasoning' in itself. How do you compare the examples? Could you compare two examples if you lacked language, or rules, or a scale of values?