TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,Dennis Michael
TI  - Law and truth
SN  - 0195132475
AV  - K230.P378 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Truth
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Law
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 183-189); 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
N2  - 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
ER  -