Wright, R. George2020-09-222020-09-22201791 St. John's Law Review 663https://hdl.handle.net/1805/23926The quality of discussion and decision making in various legal contexts often displays substantial departures from the ideal. This Article points to a useful framework with which to understand many such departures. The framework in question also points the way to healthier decision-making processes in the law and to more substantively defensible outcomes of such legal decision-making processes.en-USArticle