Reasoning with Rules An Essay on Legal Reasoning and Its Underlying Logic / by Jaap Hage.

Rule-applying legal arguments are traditionally treated as a kind of syllogism. Such a treatment overlooks the fact that legal principles and rules are not statements which describe the world, but rather means by which humans impose structure on the world. Legal rules create legal consequences, they...

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Main Author: Hage, Jaap. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Law and Philosophy Library, 27
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