The answer to your professor’s hypothetical questions posed in the Socratic method will depend upon choices (i.e., which major premise the attorneys, judge or jury adopt), value judgments (i.e., Is society, or are the courts, prepared to impose tort liability in strict-products liability cases on those most able to pay regardless of proof of wrongdoing?), personal biases in interpreting rules of law and identifying relevant facts (i.e., Is race a relevant fact in this case?).

Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide …, loc. 752