Abstract
Alf Ross (1957), a leading exponent of the so-called Scandinavian Legal Realism school, invites us to imagine a community that he calls the Noît-cif tribe that maintains that
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if a person has eaten of the chief’s food he is tû-tû; and
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if a person is tû-tû he shall be subjected to a ceremony of purification.
Ross argues that in this case the term tû-tû is redundant for its only role is in forging the link between the fact of eating of the chief’s food and the obligation of undergoing the purification, where this link can be established directly, without the mediation of this term.
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Peregrin, J. (2014). Words as Governed by Rules. In: Inferentialism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137452962_2
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