LessonsArgument Without New Proof: Absence of a Cause and Presumption of ContinuityQuiz

والأخ لا يعتق على الأخ؛ لأنه لا ولاد بينهما
A brother is not emancipated by his brother's ownership, since the relation of parenthood is absent between them.

The lack of direct parenthood would be decisive only if that relationship were proved to be the exclusive cause of the relevant emancipation rule. Absence of parenthood alone cannot settle the legal significance of all other relevant kinship relations.

The point of this classical example is not that all kinship cases must have the same result. It is to test an inference that equates absence of one specific cause with absence of every possible legal foundation.

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Kinship and emancipation: more than one relevant relation

Argument Without New Proof: Absence of a Cause and Presumption of Continuity

والأخ لا يعتق على الأخ؛ لأنه لا ولاد بينهما
A brother is not emancipated by his brother's ownership, since the relation of parenthood is absent between them.

The lack of direct parenthood would be decisive only if that relationship were proved to be the exclusive cause of the relevant emancipation rule. Absence of parenthood alone cannot settle the legal significance of all other relevant kinship relations.

The point of this classical example is not that all kinship cases must have the same result. It is to test an inference that equates absence of one specific cause with absence of every possible legal foundation.