https://sites.temple.edu/ticlj/files/2017/02/27.1.Bricker-TICLJ.pdf
Long ago, American legislatures and courts rejected such a defense for various reasons that make sense under both a utilitarian and retributivist model of punishment.2 Prior to developments in modern medicine, many injuries that are treatable today led to death3 and were treated as murder under different theories such as depraved heart murder. Further, based on the immutable facts in the above ...
https://sites.temple.edu/dwolf/files/2020/06/Irony.pdf
In the phrase "Socratic irony," which, as here, is principally used with reference to Plato's charac-ter Socrates, 'irony' is also commonly understood to mean dissembling or disingenuousness. This us-age is clearly informed by the conventional under-standing of 'eironeia,' but 'irony' does not mean deception. There are two basic kinds of irony, ver-bal and situational. Verbal irony occurs when ...