Judging requires selecting relevant facts and evaluating relative values
Evidence
In the law, as well as in life itself, judging is the act of selecting and weighing facts and suggestions as they present themselves, as well as of deciding whether the alleged facts are really facts and whether an idea suggested is a sound idea or merely a fancy. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 165
Categorization
- XREF: XREF connects to legal reasoning and judicial methodology. — connects to: Judges rely on personal values when competing legal principles are evenly balanced — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 156; Judicial decisions are governed by beliefs about facts and rules — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 160; Selecting a major premise depends on value judgments rather than strict logic — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 431 (+13 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 165
Broader Connections
- Logic tests the validity of propositions after value judgments drive decisions
#expands(0.80) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 95 - Selecting a major premise depends on value judgments rather than strict logic
#expands(0.75) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 431 - Judicial generalization and analogical reasoning constitute the process of induction
#expands(0.65) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 676 - Legal reasoning reduces to the judge drawing distinctions and the lawyer predicting them
#expands(0.60) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1301 - Deductive legal reasoning requires identifying the controlling major premise.
#expands(0.55) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 751