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Law, Morality, Coherence and Truth
Author(s) -
PECZENIK ALEKSANDER
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.1994.tb00174.x
Subject(s) - correctness , morality , feeling , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , statement (logic) , epistemology , law , norm (philosophy) , value (mathematics) , computer science , legal norm , social psychology , sociology , psychology , political science , philosophy , mathematics , algorithm , statistics , machine learning
. The author analyzes the relations between truth and law starting from the distinction between practical and theoretical spheres. He shows, first, how moral and legal statements and reasoning are connected with an operation of weighing and balancing different values and principles and how this operation is ultimately based on personal and intuitive preferences and feeling. The criteria developed by the theoretical sciences to define truth (coherence, consensus and pragmatic success) can only be translated into practical statements as criteria of correctness because we cannot affirm that a norm or value statement is true or false. The three criteria become interrelated indices of correctness: They are criteria for rational discourse.