The Nature And Value Of Vagueness In The Law
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Author |
: Hrafn Asgeirsson |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 2020-04-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509904440 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509904441 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nature and Value of Vagueness in the Law by : Hrafn Asgeirsson
Lawmaking is – paradigmatically – a type of speech act: people make law by saying things. It is natural to think, therefore, that the content of the law is determined by what lawmakers communicate. However, what they communicate is sometimes vague and, even when it is clear, the content itself is sometimes vague. This monograph examines the nature and consequences of these two linguistic sources of indeterminacy in the law. The aim is to give plausible answers to three related questions: In virtue of what is the law vague? What might be good about vague law? How should courts resolve cases of vagueness? It argues that vagueness in the law is sometimes a good thing, although its value should not be overestimated. It also proposes a strategy for resolving borderline cases, arguing that textualism and intentionalism – two leading theories of legal interpretation – often complement rather than compete with each other.
Author |
: Kit Fine |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 121 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197514955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197514952 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vagueness by : Kit Fine
"The book is about the problem of vagueness. It begins by discussing some of the existing views on vagueness and then explains why they have not been thought to be satisfactory. It then outlines a new account of vagueness, based upon the general idea that vagueness is a global rather than a local phenomenon.. In other words, the vagueness of an expression or object is not an intrinsic feature of the object or an expression but a matter of how it relates to other objects and expression. The development of this idea leads to a new semantics and logic for vagueness. The semantics and logic are then applied to a number of issues, including the sorites paradox, the transparency of mental states, and personal identity. It is shown that the view allows one to hew to a much more intuitive position on these various issues"--
Author |
: Timothy Williamson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2002-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134770182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134770189 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vagueness by : Timothy Williamson
If you keep removing single grains of sand from a heap, when is it no longer a heap? From discussions of the heap paradox in classical Greece, to modern formal approaches like fuzzy logic, Timothy Williamson traces the history of the problem of vagueness. He argues that standard logic and formal semantics apply even to vague languages and defends the controversial, realist view that vagueness is a form of ignorance - there really is a grain of sand whose removal turns a heap into a non-heap, but we can never know exactly which one it is.
Author |
: Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 462 |
Release |
: 1716 |
ISBN-10 |
: PRNC:32101068789955 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature by : Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf
Author |
: Geert Keil |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198722373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198722370 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vagueness in Psychiatry by : Geert Keil
Blurred boundaries between the normal and the pathological are a recurrent theme in almost every publication concerned with the classification of mental disorders. Yet, systematic approaches that take into account discussions about vagueness are rare. This volume is the first in the psychiatry/philosophy literature to tackle this problem.
Author |
: Jonathan Crowe |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2019-04-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108498302 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108498302 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Natural Law and the Nature of Law by : Jonathan Crowe
Presents a systematic, contemporary defence of the natural law outlook in ethics, politics and jurisprudence.
Author |
: Richard Dietz |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 599 |
Release |
: 2010-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199570386 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199570388 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cuts and Clouds by : Richard Dietz
Vagueness is a deeply puzzling aspect of the relation between language and the world. Is it a feature of the way we represent reality in language, or a feature of reality itself? How can we reason with vague concepts? Cuts and Clouds presents the latest work towards an understanding of these puzzles about the nature and logic of vagueness.
Author |
: Geert Keil |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198782889 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198782888 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vagueness and Law by : Geert Keil
Vague expressions are omnipresent in natural language. As such, their use in legal texts is virtually inevitable. If a law contains vague terms, the question whether it applies to a particular case often lacks a clear answer. One of the fundamental pillars of the rule of law is legal certainty. The determinacy of the law enables people to use it as a guide and places judges in the position to decide impartially. Vagueness poses a threat to these ideals. In borderline cases, the law seems to be indeterminate and thus incapable of serving its core rule of law value. In the philosophy of language, vagueness has become one of the hottest topics of the last two decades. Linguists and philosophers have investigated what distinguishes "soritical" vagueness from other kinds of linguistic indeterminacy, such as ambiguity, generality, open texture, and family resemblance concepts. There is a vast literature that discusses the logical, semantic, pragmatic, and epistemic aspects of these phenomena. Legal theory has hitherto paid little attention to the differences between the various kinds of linguistic indeterminacy that are grouped under the heading of "vagueness", let alone to the various theories that try to account for these phenomena. Bringing together leading scholars working on the topic of vagueness in philosophy and in law, this book fosters a dialogue between philosophers and legal scholars by examining how philosophers conceive vagueness in law from their theoretical perspective and how legal theorists make use of philosophical theories of vagueness. The chapters of the book are organized into three parts. The first part addresses the import of different theories of vagueness for the law, referring to a wide range of theories from supervaluationist to contextualist and semantic realist accounts in order to address the question of whether the law can learn from engaging with philosophical discussions of vagueness. The second part of the book examines different vagueness phenomena. The contributions in part 2 suggest that the greater awareness to different vagueness phenomena can make lawyers aware of specific issues and solutions so far overlooked. The third part deals with the pragmatic aspects of vagueness in law, providing answers to the question of how to deal with vagueness in law and with the professional, political, moral, and ethical issues such vagueness gives rise to.
Author |
: Adrian Bejan |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2013-01-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307744340 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307744345 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Design in Nature by : Adrian Bejan
In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the constructal law, accounts for the evolution of these and many other designs in our world. Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence of ever-improving designs in order to facilitate flow. River basins, cardiovascular systems, and bolts of lightning are very efficient flow systems to move a current—of water, blood, or electricity. Likewise, the more complex architecture of animals evolve to cover greater distance per unit of useful energy, or increase their flow across the land. Such designs also appear in human organizations, like the hierarchical “flowcharts” or reporting structures in corporations and political bodies. All are governed by the same principle, known as the constructal law, and configure and reconfigure themselves over time to flow more efficiently. Written in an easy style that achieves clarity without sacrificing complexity, Design in Nature is a paradigm-shifting book that will fundamentally transform our understanding of the world around us.
Author |
: Andrei Marmor |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 448 |
Release |
: 2013-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191654756 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191654752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law by : Andrei Marmor
This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from philosophy of language to their work on the nature of law and legal interpretation. By making this body of recent work available in a single volume, readers will gain both a general overview of the various interactions between language and law, and also detailed analyses of particular areas in which this interaction is manifest. The contributions to this volume are grouped under three main general areas: The first area concerns a critical assessment, in light of recent advances in philosophy of language, of the foundational role of language in understanding the nature of law itself. The second main area concerns a number of ways in which an understanding of language can resolve some of the issues prevalent in legal interpretation, such as the various ways in which semantic content can differ from law's assertive content; the contribution of presuppositions and pragmatic implicatures in understanding what the law conveys; the role of vagueness in legal language, for example. The third general topic concerns the role of language in the context of particular legal doctrines and legal solutions to practical problems, such as the legal definitions of inchoate crimes, the legal definition of torture, or the contractual doctrines concerning default rules. Together, these three key issues cover a wide range of philosophical interests in law that can be elucidated by a better understanding of language and linguistic communication.