Reasonableness

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Now there comes a point when a reasonable man will swallow his pride and admit he's made a terrible mistake. The truth is…I was never a reasonable man.

Big Fish

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Admitting mistakes Mistakes Reasonableness

Speaker

Edward Bloom (Young)

Actor

Ewan McGregor

Source

Big Fish

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy (film) Comedy drama (film) Fantasy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man.".... He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen.

A.P. Herbert

The Reasonable Man

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Topic

Legal theory Reasonableness Law

Author

A.P. Herbert

Source

The Reasonable Man

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Herbert, A. P. "The Reasonable Man." Uncommon Law. Methuen, 1935.