Structures in law: A new way to reconstruct law using logical tools from philosophy of science.
Philosophy of science offers as yet untapped potential to inform legal theory. This paper explores some of it. Drawing on and adapting logical tools from the semantic and structuralist views of scientific theories, I propose a formal framework for analysing legal norms. I illustrate how it works by...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 205; no. 3; pp. 1 - 33 |
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Mar2025
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