Logic

The scales of justice, a potent symbol for the rule of law and for the balance that any such rule requires.

Poor application tends toward the rule of law

arbitration, law, Logic / By The Judicious Sasquatch

This note criticizes the court’s application of Vavilov tout court. Vavilov lays down a useful statement about appellate courts’ jurisdictions when they are granted a statutory appeal. That case does not pretend to make private-law rules, and courts must be wary of mistaking application for analogy.

David Hume pondering his problem of induction

Dicey’s ghost walks free

law, legal history, Logic, politics / By The Judicious Sasquatch

David Hume’s is-ought problem is oft-forgotten in Canadian political and legal circles, and it bears some repetition. We often forget the value of deduction in an algorithmic age, for computers and the science from which they stem cause us to increasingly rely on inductive logic. In this age of induction, we formulate general rules based …

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