Andrew Schumann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Andrew Schumann is involved.
Articles
2023 Argumentation tradition of traders in late antiquity Journal of Argumentation in Context 12:2, pp. 159–210 | Article
The institute of legality for traders, including business contracts, business correspondence, and legal proceedings concerning economic cases, appeared in Mesopotamia first since the early dynastic period (ca. 2900–2350 B.C.). This institute became well organized for the period of the third… read more
2020 Legal argumentation in Mesopotamia since Ur III Journal of Argumentation in Context 9:2, pp. 243–282 | Article
In this paper, I show that we can find some foundations of logic and legal argumentation in the tablets of Mesopotamia at least since the dynasty of Ur III. In these texts, we see the oldest correct application of logical inference rules (e.g. modus ponens). As concerns the legal argumentation… read more