| Law and Truth Revised Edition Contributor(s): Patterson, Dennis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195132475 ISBN-13: 9780195132472 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $82.17 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: 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 the world, 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 the key to legal meaning. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | Jurisprudence - Law | Ethics & Professional Responsibility - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 340.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.16" W x 9.21" (0.63 lbs) 200 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 the world, 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 the key to legal meaning. |