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From the very beginning, philosophical reflection on law has been confronted with questions of legal reasoning and of the relation between judge and rule. These questions entail indeed as Gadamer pointed out1 the issue of the role of Reason in human activity (moral, political and legal), and hence ultimately the issue of the statute of Reason.
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Lenoble, J. (1991). The Function of Analogy in Law: Return to Kant and Wittgenstein. In: Nerhot, P. (eds) Legal Knowledge and Analogy. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3260-2_5
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