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LAW AND TRUTH

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Professor Dennis Patterson

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

Pub. date:

1 September, 1999

Pages:

198

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In this volume, Patterson uses the modern debate between realism and anti-realism to examine what legal knowledge is. He explores how the principal contemporary theories of jurisprudence define legal knowledge, but concludes that their definitions are inextricably bound up with the nature of justification. As an alternative to the definitions provided by the theories of jurisprudence, Patterson offers a novel account of legal knowledge as pragmatism.

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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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