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On Law and Reason

By Aleksander Peczenik, Jaap C. Hage (Preface by)
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By Aleksander Peczenik, Jaap C. Hage (Preface by)
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‘This is an outline of a coherence theory of law. Its basic ideas are: reasonable support and weighing of reasons. All the rest is commentary.’

These words at the beginning of the preface of this book perfectly indicate what On Law and Reason is about. It is a theory about the nature of the law which emphasises the role of reason in the law and which refuses to limit the role of reason to the application of deductive logic.

In 1989, when the first edition of On Law and Reason appeared, t...

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