Legal errors frequently stem from failing to enumerate all alternatives correctly

Evidence

The real problem in law consists in creating proper premises, in discovering the relations enumerated in the major premise. Errors are most likely to arise in formulating the major premise. It is essential that the disjunctive members shall be exhaustively enumerated, and also that they shall exclude one another. In the law we all can slip into the fallacy of the missing disjuncts when we do not include all the alternatives in the major premise. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 948

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 948
• XREF: connects to: Disjunctive fallacies occur through missing disjuncts or nonexclusivity of options. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 783

Broader Connections

• Disjunctive fallacies occur through missing disjuncts or nonexclusivity of options. #corroborates (0.70) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 783