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Kettle logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic

• r00fus 8y ago
  Why do legal arguments constantly seem to use this method all the time?
  • closeparen 8y ago
    Guessing: a defense needs to establish reasonable doubt, not an airtight theory of the case.
  • DmenshunlAnlsis 8y ago
    This should explain why: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative Originating in the legal profession, argument in the alternative is a strategy in which a lawyer advances several competing (and possibly mutually exclusive) arguments in order to pre-empt objections by his adversary, with the goal of showing that regardless of interpretation there is no reasonable conclusion other than the advocate's.