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The logician imagines that lawyers know too little logic to err interestingly. Nevertheless in Mitchill v. Lath,2 decided in 1928, when Kurt Gödel was young and Nuel Belnap not born, a distinguished court, the Court of Appeals of New York, made a logical mistake that Hans Reichenbach later made too and that L. Jonathan Cohen is making right now.
The author thanks Nancy Dunham for help writing this essay and Sharon Jones and Kathleen Moore for help editing it. Tom Malnati suggested Figure 8.
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Birmingham, R.L. (1990). The Logic of Mitchill V. Lath. In: Dunn, J.M., Gupta, A. (eds) Truth or Consequences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0681-5_18
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