Position and Change: A Study in Law and Logic (Synthese Library Volume 112)

Lindahl, Lars

ISBN 10: 9027707871 / ISBN 13: 9789027707871

Published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1977

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299 pages, a near-fine hardback, publisher's original navy blue cloth binding with gold gilt lettering and the D. Reidel Publishing Company logo to the spine. Absolute minimal evidence that this is an ex-library book (9027707871).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Position and Change: A Study in Law and Logic (Synthese Library Volume 112)
• Publisher: D. Reidel Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027707871
• ISBN 13: 9789027707871
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • LAW

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Synopsis

The present study which I have subtitled A Study in Law and Logic was prompted by the question of whether an investigation into law and legal systems could lead to the discovery of unrevealed fundamental patterns common to all such systems. This question was further stimulated by two interrelated problems. Firstly, could an inquiry be rooted in specifically legal matters, as distinct from the more usual writings on deontic logic? Secondly, could such inquiry yield a theory which would nevertheless embrace a strict and simple logical structure, permitting substantive conclusions in legal matters to be deduced from simple rules governing some basic concepts? Before the development of deontic logic, W. N. Hohfeld devoted his efforts to this question at the beginning of this century. However, with this exception, few jurists have studied the interrelation between law and logic projected in this way. Nevertheless, two great names are to be found, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Jeremy Bentham-both philo­ sophers with legal as weIl as logical training. Bentham's investigations of logical patterns in law have only recently attracted attention; and as for Leibniz, his achievements are still almost totally unexplored (his most important writings on law and logic have not even been translated from Latin). My initial interest in the question was evoked by Professor Stig Kanger. Although primarily a logician and philosopher, Stig Kanger has been interested also in the fundamentals of legal theory.

Language Notes

Text: English, Swedish (translation)