Well law includes a lot of logic, in the form of verbal reasoning. Bertrand Russell formalised how math can be reduced to logic...kinda. I pray for the haters of a lawyer who can substantiate his reasoning with hard data. Imagine a lawyer who can substantiate an argument for legalising assisted suicide by referring to quality adjusted life years and grounding his/her reasoning in some kind of felsific calculus.
On second thoughts, the poor reception that hedonic calculus (according to that one Charles Dickins book at least) got from the world is evidence against this line of thinking.
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edit 1: evidence that lawyers aren’t great at quantitative evidence and by extension, some applications of logic.
Well law includes a lot of logic, in the form of verbal reasoning. Bertrand Russell formalised how math can be reduced to logic...kinda. I pray for the haters of a lawyer who can substantiate his reasoning with hard data. Imagine a lawyer who can substantiate an argument for legalising assisted suicide by referring to quality adjusted life years and grounding his/her reasoning in some kind of felsific calculus.
On second thoughts, the poor reception that hedonic calculus (according to that one Charles Dickins book at least) got from the world is evidence against this line of thinking.
:/
edit 1: evidence that lawyers aren’t great at quantitative evidence and by extension, some applications of logic.