Law and Truth

by Dennis Patterson

2020-11-24 17:28:55

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

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File size9.57 X 6.38 X 0.83 in
Print pages200
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date April 30, 1999
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780195083231

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