Beschreibung:
This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas. According to the authors' view, qiyas represents an innovative and sophisticated form of dialectical reasoning that not only provides new epistemological insights into legal argumentation in general (including legal reasoning in Common and Civil Law) but also furnishes a fine-grained pattern for parallel reasoning which can be deployed in a wide range of problem-solving contexts and does not seem to reduce to the standard forms of analogical reasoning studied in contemporary philosophy of science and argumentation theory.
1. Introduction.- 2. Qiyas Al-¿Illa.- 3. Qiyas Al-Dalala and Qiyas Al-Shabah.- 4. Immanent Reasoning and the Dialogical Constitution of Logic.