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Erschienen in: Artificial Intelligence and Law 3/2013

01.09.2013

Argument from analogy in legal rhetoric

verfasst von: Douglas Walton

Erschienen in: Artificial Intelligence and Law | Ausgabe 3/2013

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Abstract

This paper applies recent work on scripts and stories developed as tools of evidential reasoning in artificial intelligence to model the use of argument from analogy as a rhetorical device of persuasion. The example studied is Gerry Spence’s closing argument in the case of Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee Corporation, said to be the most persuasive closing argument ever used in an American trial. It is shown using this example how argument from analogy is based on a similarity premise where similarity between two cases is modeled using the device of a story scheme from the hybrid theory of legal evidential reasoning (Bex in Arguments, stories and criminal evidence: a formal hybrid theory. Springer, Dordrecht 2011). It is shown how the rhetorical strategy of Spence’s argumentation in the closing argument interweaves argument from analogy with explanation through three levels.

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Metadaten
Titel
Argument from analogy in legal rhetoric
verfasst von
Douglas Walton
Publikationsdatum
01.09.2013
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Artificial Intelligence and Law / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0924-8463
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8382
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-013-9139-x

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