Analysis of Dis/agreement - with particular reference to Law and Legal Theory

Analysis of Dis/agreement - with particular reference to Law and Legal Theory by S. Eng.

In order to determine whether two participants in a discussion are in real dis/agreement, one must compare their propositions. Comparison presupposes yardsticks in common. Analysis of Dis/agreement thematises such yardsticks, in that it demonstrates the existence, content and factual significance of...

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Main Author: Eng, S. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
Edition:1st ed. 2003.
Series:Law and Philosophy Library, 66
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Political science.
Criminology.
Law—Philosophy.
Law.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction
  • II Some Fundamental Types of Proposition about What Something is
  • A Survey
  • B Definitions
  • C Characterisations
  • D Analytically Un/True Propositions
  • E Separating
  • F Fusion of Descriptive and Normative Propositions. The Concepts of ‘Descriptive Proposition’ and ‘Normative Proposition’ as Concepts of Degree
  • G No Corresponding Fusion of Definitions and Characterisations
  • H Interplay
  • III Topics from the Assessment of Tenability
  • IV Some Forms of Language and Argumentation that Often Make it Unclear Which Type of Proposition One is Confronted with; In Particular on the Flight from the Normative Proposition
  • V Reconstruction and Redefinition: A Distinct and Widespread Combination of the Fundamental Proposition Types
  • I?V Conclusion
  • Literature referred to
  • Index of authors
  • Index of subjects.

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