2020
DOI: 10.1111/raju.12268
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The Potential of Abductive Legal Reasoning

Abstract: The article describes the potential of abductive legal reasoning as a means of systematically exploring the role of inferences within legal reasoning. Starting out from the structures of abduction as originally presented by Peirce in his four-horsemen example, the author points to the fact that Peirce actually employed a hypothesis that targeted an institutional fact. Hence the abductive inference has a great potential for categorising new phenomena under norms, yet it is undertheorised within the field of law… Show more

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“…It promotes gathering a broader variety of data and carrying out the study in both qualitative and quantitative forms (Zelechowska et al, 2020). Moreover, abductive reasoning is a form of logical inference that starts with an observation/ existing knowledge which advanced to find the most likely conclusions based on those observations/existing knowledge (Askeland, 2020). Although the abductive approach shares the mutual goal with induction approach in producing a theory, the distinction lies at the point of the conclusion of the research.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It promotes gathering a broader variety of data and carrying out the study in both qualitative and quantitative forms (Zelechowska et al, 2020). Moreover, abductive reasoning is a form of logical inference that starts with an observation/ existing knowledge which advanced to find the most likely conclusions based on those observations/existing knowledge (Askeland, 2020). Although the abductive approach shares the mutual goal with induction approach in producing a theory, the distinction lies at the point of the conclusion of the research.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%