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Objectivity and rationality belong to the most important and universally postulated virtues of lawyers’ reasoning. But what does it mean that legal practice and jurisprudence aim at objectivity and rationality? Of course — everybody has some vague idea about objectivity and reasonableness, but it is one of the philosopher’s tasks to clarify these terms and to analyse the methodological implications of these postulates.
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Weinberger, O. (1984). Objectivity and Rationality in Lawyer’s Reasoning. In: Peczenik, A., Lindahl, L., Roermund, B.V. (eds) Theory of Legal Science. Synthese Library, vol 176. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6481-5_18
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