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Pragmatic Metatheory for Legal Science

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In their classic work Normative Systems Carlos Alchourr6n and Eugenio Bulygin applied to legal science methodological tools developed, as they put it, in other fields of knowledge. They had in mind especially the methodology of mathematics and physics, and the notion of a system employed in these fields of exact science(1).

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Sintonen, M. (1984). Pragmatic Metatheory for Legal Science. 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_5

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