Inductive Topics and Reorganization of a Classification

Pol Boucher (1)

1 IODE - Institut de l'Ouest : Droit et Europe

Contrary to a generally accepted idea, the legal use of topics within the framework of late scholastic, did not have as a function to introduce indecisiveness or relativism into the treatment of particular cases. On the contrary, its function was to obtain unquestionable conclusions, based on the logical properties of a classification of genus and species, it constituted deductively, inductively and analogically by the examination of substantive law and ratio legis.

Mots clés: Theories of Law; History of Philosophy; Leibniz

Domaines: Droit

Pol Boucher. Inductive Topics and Reorganization of a Classification . Approches to Legal Rationality, 20, Springer Netherlands, pp.49-71, 2011, 978-90-481-9587-9. ⟨10.1007/978-90-481-9588-6_3⟩. ⟨halshs-01139206⟩