Law and truth / Dennis Patterson.

By:

Patterson, Dennis Michael (Dennis Michael), 1955- [author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: İngilizce Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1996Description: 189 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0195132475
0195083237

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

K230.P378

Contents:

Introduction : realism, anti-realism, and legal theory -- Legal formalism : on the immanent rationality of law -- Moral realism and truth in law -- Legal positivism -- Law as interpretation : the jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin -- Law as an interpretive community : the case of Stanley Fish -- Truth in law : a modal account -- Postmodern jurisprudence

Summary: Taking up a single question--"What does it mean to say a proposition of law is true?"--This book advances a new account of truth in law. Drawing upon the later philosophy of Wittgenstein, as well as more recent postmodern theory of the relationship between language, meaning, and the world, Patterson examines leading contemporary jurisprudential approaches to this question and finds them flawed in similar and previously unnoticed ways. He offers an alternative account of legal justification, one in which linguistic practice--the use of forms of legal argument--holds the key to legal meaning

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Merkez Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon / Main Collection	Merkez Kütüphane	Genel Koleksiyon	K230.P378 L39 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0059928

Taking up a single question--"What does it mean to say a proposition of law is true?"--This book advances a new account of truth in law. Drawing upon the later philosophy of Wittgenstein, as well as more recent postmodern theory of the relationship between language, meaning, and the world, Patterson examines leading contemporary jurisprudential approaches to this question and finds them flawed in similar and previously unnoticed ways. He offers an alternative account of legal justification, one in which linguistic practice--the use of forms of legal argument--holds the key to legal meaning

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