DEFINITION PER GENUS PROXIMUM ET DIFFERENTIAM SPECIFICAM AND LEGAL LANGUAGE Cover Image

ОПРЕДЕЛЕНИЕ PER GENUS PROXIMUM ET DIFFERENTIAM SPECIFICAM И ЮРИДИЧЕСКИЙ ЯЗЫК
DEFINITION PER GENUS PROXIMUM ET DIFFERENTIAM SPECIFICAM AND LEGAL LANGUAGE

Author(s): Vitaly Ogleznev, Valery Surovtsev
Subject(s): History of Philosophy, Logic, Special Branches of Philosophy, Ancient Philosphy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет
Keywords: Aristotle; Porphyry; Boethius; definitio per genus proximum et differentiam specificam; legal language; H. L. A. Hart; J. Bentham;

Summary/Abstract: This essay is concerned with the applicability in modern conceptual jurisprudence of a particular methodology for defining concepts, namely, per genus proximum et differentiam specificam. We explicate the origin of this method and how it was applied by Aristotle, Porphyry, and Boethius, arguing that H. L. A. Hart’s views about the “open texture” of language, which is context-sensitive, call into question the applicability of this methodology in modern conceptual jurisprudence.

  • Issue Year: IX/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 228-240
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian
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