LAST HANDOUT

SPRING 2010

Bandwagon Fallacy // appeal to authority

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Fallacy of division 

Syllogism: false, true, valid and invalid syllogisms

Fallacies of Slippery slope, Expert fallacy, statistical, ambiguity

 Modus ponens, Modus tollens

Fallacy of composition

False cause

Fallacy of affirming the consequent.

Appeal to pity, Ad hominem,Appeal to ignorance, Complex question, Appeal to power

Commerce clause.

Legal boundaries.

Legislative history, Literalism,

ITA, casuistry

Original position

Fixed points

Acoustic separation

Web of belief

Originalism

Privately adaptable rules

Factors

Bifurcation, Tu quo, Enthymeme, Nirvana fallacy, False analogy

Furman v. Georgia

Woodson v. North Carolina

General rules can create bad private incentives

Sunstein suggests that interpreters of law might “soften” the law.

Be able to reproduce Prof. LeClair’s diagram of Sunstien and Burton’s theories

Citizens and Officials must be allowed to engage in rule revision.

Privately adaptable rules are a promising way to minimize the problem of excessive generality in rulemaking.

Private ordering of rules reduces informational demands on Govt says Sunstein. (The economic argument)

Rule vs. Rulelessness

Originalism – hard and soft