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[[File:Logic Tree 3.png|frameless|center|But organising by code, then colour, is simplest of all.]] | [[File:Logic Tree 3.png|frameless|center|But organising by code, then colour, is simplest of all.]] | ||
}}</small>}} | }}</small>}}It is easy to forget is how important is the logical structure of your writing. Not just the paragraph organisation, but the semantic structure underlying the sentences themselves. | ||
Any statement boils down to a logical proposition, and so on. It is | Any statement boils down to a logical proposition, and so on. It is like software code, only instead of subroutines, conditions, logic gates, if/then statements, lawyers call them [[Obligations binding|obligations]], [[Rights cumulative|rights]], [[Discretion|discretions]], [[proviso]]s, [[incluso]]s, [[option]]s, [[Definitions|definition]]. | ||
For example, an obligation is an if-then statement; option is an either-or gate. Some legal operators like “([[whether or not]]...)”, “([[Including, but not limited to|including without limitation]]...)”, “([[for the avoidance of doubt]]...)”, “([[May, but shall not be obliged to|may, but need not]]...)” do not constrain or expand the propositions they act on and can be omitted from a logic map (just as they should be omitted from the ''draft'', dammit). | For example, an obligation is an if-then statement; option is an either-or gate. Some legal operators like “([[whether or not]]...)”, “([[Including, but not limited to|including without limitation]]...)”, “([[for the avoidance of doubt]]...)”, “([[May, but shall not be obliged to|may, but need not]]...)” do not constrain or expand the propositions they act on and can be omitted from a logic map (just as they should be omitted from the ''draft'', dammit). | ||