Hints and Guesses: Legal Modes of Semio-Logical Reasoning
Legal semiotics is an internationally proliferated subfield of general semiotics. The three-step principles of Peirce’s semiotic logic are the principles of logic: deduction, induction and – Peirce’s discovery – abduction. Neither induction nor abduction can provide a weaker truth claim than deduction. Abduction occurs in intuitive conclusions regarding the possibility of backward reasoning, contrary to the system of law. Civil-law cultures possess an abstract deductive orientation, governed by the rigidity of previous written law, whereas the actual fragility of a common-law system with cases and precedents inclines to induction, orienting its habituality (habits) in moral time and space. Customary law gives credit to abductive values: relevant sentiments, beliefs and propositions are upgraded to valid reasoning. The decision-making by U.S. case law and English common-law is characterized as decision law with abductive undertones.
Table of contents
- 1. Peirce’s Logic
- 2. Holmes and Peirce
- 3. Semio-Legal Logic and Truth
- 4. Modes of Reasoning
- 5. Abductive Beliefs
- 6. Abductive Sign-Action
- 7. Judicial Decisions
- 8. Abductive Flashes and Glimpses
- 9. Bibliography
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