About the Unnecessary of Abdutive Inference as an Autonomous Category: Narratives, Police Stories, Legal Reasoning and Other Stories...

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https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.100.046

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Narratives, Police story, Legal reasoning, Abduction, Enthymeme

Abstract

The recognition of narratives as spaces of human connection, of generation of encounters and of historicity, places us in the face of the revaluation of discursive creation, as areas of recreation and emergence of legal content. Devoted to the analysis of one of the many detective stories that Conan Doyle offers us, through his legendary character Sherlock Holmes, we try to reveal the intrusive power of the Law that colors with its shadows all the possible scenaries of intersubjectivity. Delving into the consideration of the formal perspective of legal argumentation and, in the analysis of the elements of the formal structure of the argument, we see the differences between the types of inferences and their use in it. From there, and with our gaze focused on the abductive inference as specific to the forensic course, we conclude that the aforementioned categorization is unnecessary, given that the benefits that its specificity could merit due to its heuritic particularities, are satisfied with the recourse to classic inductive reasoning, but evidencing the enthymematic particularity that is vastly useful in legal argumentative discourse.

Author Biography

María Roberta Simone Bergamaschi, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina)

Lawyer and graduate of the UNCUYO Law School (Argentina). She holds a Specialization and a Master’s degree in Judicial Office and Management (UNCUYO) and a Specialization in Family Law (UNCUYO); she is a doctoral candidate in Legal and Social Sciences (University of Mendoza). She is a qualified mediator (appointed via the Mendoza Judiciary’s competitive selection process) and a Lead Teaching Assistant (appointed via competitive selection) at the UNCUYO Law School. She teaches in the Specialization and Master’s programs in Judicial Office and Management (UNCUYO – UM) and in Family Law (UNCUYO), and is a postgraduate instructor and researcher.

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2026-09-28

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Simone Bergamaschi, M. R. (2026). About the Unnecessary of Abdutive Inference as an Autonomous Category: Narratives, Police Stories, Legal Reasoning and Other Stories. República Y Derecho, 12(12), 1–36. https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.100.046

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