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A Revision of the Constitutive and Epistemic Coherence Theories in Law
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A Revision of the Constitutive and Epistemic Coherence Theories in Law

Ratio Juris, Vol.14(2), pp.212-232
06/2001

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Law
This paper analyses and criticizes Joseph Raz's attacks on coherentist theories. It is argued that Raz's characterisation of epistemic coherence theories is too narrow and that his criticism of constitutive coherence theories is based on a conceptual mistake in his own description. The study is an indirect argument to rethink coherence theories of law and adjudication within a more powerful framework than that propounded by Raz.

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