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- Demonstrates how to perceive law in terms of facts and sets, and the benefits
- Examines what the legal norms really are, and what makes some of them true and others false
- Casts new light on the rules of legal reasoning, used in applying the law
Part of the book series: Law and Visual Jurisprudence (LVJ, volume 6)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The main outcome of the book consists in explications of several legal notions (including legal events, legal acts and legal rules) in terms of the formal ontology of situations. In addition, the book concludes that legal norms are sentences in a logical sense, so some are true, while others are false, and that their logical value does not depend on whether or not they were adopted in the law-making process. Lastly, the book contends that there are semantic relations between orders that are similar to entailment, contradiction, opposition, and sub-opposition, despite the fact that orders are not sentences in a logical sense, i.e., they are neither true nor false.
The book alsopresents some original Wittgenstein-style deontic logics built on the first order logic. The formal results are applied to selected problems in the theory of law, including the problem of the possibility of algorithmic application of legal norms.
Authors and Affiliations
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Kochanski & Partners sp.kom., Warsaw, Poland
Andrzej Malec
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to the Semantics of Law
Authors: Andrzej Malec
Series Title: Law and Visual Jurisprudence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95679-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95678-3Published: 19 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95681-3Published: 20 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95679-0Published: 18 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-4532
Series E-ISSN: 2662-4540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 141
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Semiotics