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Semester 4 · Second Year · 4 credits

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Syllabus for Logic II

Semester 4 · Second Year · 4 credits

Module I

  • Categorical Syllogism
  • 1.1 Syllogism- Rules and Fallacies
  • 1.1.2 Figures and Moods – Testing the validity of arguments.
  • 1.1.3 Reduction - Aristotle‘s Dictum de omni et Nullo and the First Figure.
  • 1.1.4 Direct Reduction and Indirect Reduction.
  • 1.2 Nyaya Logic ( Anumana - Vyapti - Hetvabhasa )

Module II

  • Other Mediate Inferences
  • 2.1 Hypothetical and Disjunctive Arguments
  • 2.1.1 Rules and fallacies in the arguments with special reference to Law.
  • 2.3 Analysis of Rules of Inference and Rules of Replacement.
  • 2.4 Dilemma -Types of Dilemma, Refutation of Dilemma- Values of Dilemma in Law.
  • 2.5 Hypothesis- Conditions of good hypothesis - kinds of hypothesis.
  • 2.6 Hypothetico - Deductive Method – stages of the method as used in Science.
  • 2.7 Method Inquiry in Law.

Module III

  • Language and Law
  • 3.1 Uses of Language- Emotive words – Emotively Neutral language – kinds of agreement
  • and disagreement. (Swami Vivekanand‘s Chicago Speech)
  • 3.2 Fallacies- Its kinds- Fallacies
  • 3.2.1 Fallacies of Ambiguity
  • 3.2.2 Fallacies of Relevance
  • 3.2.3 Fallacies of Defective Induction
  • 3.2.4 Fallacies of Presumption
  • 3.3 Impediments to good reasoning.

Module IV

  • Application of Logical & Moral Reasoning
  • 4.1 Causation- Conception, common sense and scientific notion, plurality of causes.
  • 4.2 Free Will & Maxims in relation to causation –
  • 4.2.1 In jure non remota causa sed proxima spectator – In law the immediate and not
  • the remote cause is considered.
  • 4.2.2 Respondent superior
  • 4.3 Equality and its Implications *
  • 4.4 Ends and Means *(M. K. Gandhi, Peter Singer)

Recommended Resources

  • 1 Introduction to Logic – K. T. Basantani - Seth Publication. (11th Edition)
  • 2 An Introduction to Logic – Irving Copi – (Ninth Edition).
  • 3 An Introduction to Logic – Irving Copi – (Fourteenth Edition).
  • 4 *Gandhi‘s Autobiography-My Experiments with Truth
  • 5 *Practical Ethics by Peter Singer - Second Edition –Cambridge University Press. (Chapter II and XI from the book Practical Ethics by Peter Singer).
  • 6 Reason and Argument – Richard Feldmen – Prentice Hall International USA.
  • 7 A Selection of Legal Maxims – Herbert Broom. Tenth Edition
  • 8 A Concise Introduction to Logic - Patrick J. Hurley & Lori Watson
  • 10 The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
  • 11 https://iep.utm.edu/freewill/ (Concept of Free Will)

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai Revised Syllabus for LL.B. (5 years) Five Years Integrated Course (CBCS), in force from the academic year 2022-23 and amended in June 2023. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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