Uwagi krytyczne o probabilistycznym pojęciu obowiązywania Alfa Rossa
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RIS BIB ENDNOTECritical Remarks on Alf Ross’s Probabilistic Concept of Validity
Data publikacji: 2016
Principia, 2015, Tom 61-62, s. 225-237
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843887PI.15.013.5542Autorzy
Critical Remarks on Alf Ross’s Probabilistic Concept of Validity
The concept of legal validity is regarded within the dominant legal-positivistic account of law as a non-gradable concept: a legal rule is either valid or non-valid. However, this account of validity is criticised by some scholars for being too strict and rigid. An attractive alternative would appear to be offered by Alf Ross’s account of validity as a probabilistic concept. Ross assumed that the stronger the predictions of judicial behaviour that a given rule generates, the higher the probability that can be assigned to its validity. However, this account of legal validity is by no means uncontroversial. In this paper, four objections against it are formulated: apparent gradability, problematic ascertainability, the normative insignificance of probabilistic information and the neglecting of the normativity of legal rules. These objections are treated in this paper as strong grounds for rejecting Ross’s claim that predictions of judicial behaviour formulated on the basis of rules are conceptually linked to their validity (i.e. they define their meaning); it is argued in the paper that they are merely a way of testing empirical hypotheses concerning the application (effectiveness) of legal rules.
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Informacje: Principia, 2015, Tom 61-62, s. 225-237
Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy
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Critical Remarks on Alf Ross’s Probabilistic Concept of Validity
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Polska, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków
Katedra Filozofii Prawa i Etyki Prawniczej, Wydział Prawa i Administracji, Uniwersytet Jagielloński
Publikacja: 2016
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