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Conclusion The use of ordinary dictionaries in interpreting the law is justified in the same way that chemists use the periodic table. ███ ████████ █████ ██ █ ██████████ ██████ ██ ███████████ ██████████ ███████████ ████ ███ ██ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ █████ █ ███████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ████████████ ███ ██ ██████ ██ █ █████ ███████████ ██ █████████ ██████████████ ███████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that the use of ordinary dictionaries is justified in interpreting the law. This is based on an analogy to how chemists use the periodic table. The periodic table is a source of agreed-upon background information that can be useful for chemists. The author believes that ordinary dictionaries can be useful to legal interpreters trying to resolve terminological issues in the same way that periodic tables are useful for chemists
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the relationship between periodic tables and the problems chemists work on is relevantly similar to the relationship between ordinary dictionaries and the resolution of terminological issues.
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a
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This difference concerns how the content is laid out in periodic tables and dictionaries. But this difference doesn’t have an impact on the usefulness of each item.
b
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This points out a difference that is relevant to the usefulness of dictionaries in resolving disputes about terms. If there are disagreements about definitions, then dictionaries aren’t useful to solving disputes in the same way that periodic tables are useful to chemists.
c
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When periodic tables and dictionaries came about doesn’t impact the usefulness of a dictionary for solving disputes about terms.
d
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How easy the content is to memorize doesn’t affect the usefulness of an ordinary dictionary for resolving interpretation of terms.
e
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Whether dictionaries are currently used to resolve interpretations does not affect whether they would be useful to scholars and interpreters in the same way that a periodic table is useful to chemists.