Document Type
Article
Repository Date
2010
Keywords
language and law, constructionalism, deconstruction, doctrinalism in law, words and meaning
Subject Categories
Law | Legal History | Legal Theory | Public Law and Legal Theory
Abstract
Lawyers and judges often become impatient with those who dispute what they regard as the clear meaning of words. The meaning of words derives from the contexts in which they are employed, and we can never be certain of the context because we cannot enter into the minds of other persons to see the contexts to which their minds are adverting.
Repository Citation
D'Amato, Anthony, "Aspects of Deconstruction: The Failure of the Word "Bird"" (2010). Faculty Working Papers. 65.
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/facultyworkingpapers/65
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