A minore ad maius

The final argumentum a minori ad majus features in legal methodology to conclude from the smaller to the greater: In a narrower control arrangement (typically a ban on arrangement), the further arrangement included.

The reverse and generally more well-known conclusion argumentum a maiori ad minus is also possible and takes into methodological representations to the two circuits usually a wider space; the importance of the argumentum a maiori ad minus is disproportionately larger in jurisprudence. These are applications of the first- law - circuit, also called argumentum a fortiori.

From the Jewish literature of the conclusion a minori ad majus is known as qal wa - homer (literally " Light and Heavy ", closing the system easier to the more difficult ).

Example

Examples of an argumentum a minori ad majus:

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• Methodology of Law