Law and Truth

by Dennis Patterson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195083237
• ISBN13: 9780195083231
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"