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Roberta Kevelson, "Discussion on J. Touchie's Response to B. Jackson's 'MacCormick on Logical Justification in Easy Cases: A Semiotic Critique'", International Journal for the Semiotics of Law / Revue Internationale de Sémiotique Juridique Vol. XI no.31 (1998), 67-71: The title tells the story of this paper. Here Kevelson contributes a Peircean point of view, especially on points which touch upon the Peircean understanding of the roles of different kinds of reasoning in different kinds of discourses. The focus here is on the interplay of reasoning types in the general concept of legal reasoning. E.g., the symbolic form of the syllogism, it is pointed out, has become a rhetorical device which persuades that it is truth-bearing. Additional commentary discusses Kevelson's agreement with both Touchie and MacCormick, in opposition to Jackson, but for different reasons than they each offer.

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