GENESIS ACCORDING to a MULTIVARIATE DEITY*

Defining and Describing What We Do: Doctrinal Legal Research

“…The application of such techniques, along with a description of, for example, the use of deductive logic, inductive reasoning and analogy where appropriate, would constitute the second part of the methodology. 93 If the researcher intends to draw heavily on an approach which uses the standard tools of logic, then the methodology would require a description of the basic syllogism and the processes involved in inductive and deductive reasoning. Legal reasoning is often deductive because the general rules are 'given', for example through legislation.…”