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In this chapter, I will provide a contemporary explanation of how the law may instill practical and theoretical concepts in its adherents. In particular, I will show that the law shapes a person’s mental processes and provides both theoretical and practical concepts which a person uses in his or her daily living through two mechanisms, namely (1) by creating social categories through which a person comes to understand the world and (2) by integrating those concepts into a person’s understanding of the world through their influencing daily behavior and in shaping a person’s habits so as to be in line with legal norms.
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Bedzow, I. (2017). A Contemporary Explanation of the Law’s Construction of Reality. In: Maimonides for Moderns. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44573-1_6
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