Unit 4 of Logic – II (syllabus: Module 4 — causation and plurality of causes, causa proxima and respondeat superior, equality and its implications, and ends and means). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.
What this unit covers
- What is a cause, and what kinds of condition make it up?
- How is cause defined, and what does unconditionality add?
- What is the doctrine of plurality of causes, and why does science reject it?
- What part does a free and deliberate act play in legal causation?
- How does the law decide which cause it will look to?
- Why is the rule that a superior answers for his servant treated as a maxim of causation?
- How does a principle of equality work as a premise, and what follows from it?
- How is an argument from an end to a means tested?
Treat that list as a self-test: recite each topic's rule from memory before you open its cases.