Inductive Topics and Reorganization of a Classification.

Contrary to a generally accepted idea, the legal use of topics within the framework of late scholastic, did not have as a function to introduce indecisiveness or relativism into the treatment of particular cases. On the contrary, its function was to obtain unquestionable conclusions, based on the logical properties of a classification of genus and species, it constituted deductively, inductively and analogically by the examination of substantive law and ratio legis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]