Scott Soames, “Appreciating Analytic Philosophy” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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What Is the Philosophy of Law?
An interpreter is someone who takes a law that has been promulgated by a legislative authority and comes up with rules for implementing the law. The first task of a legal interpreter is to discover what that content is, what that representational content is. It's not true that context plays no role in determining the content of what words are used to or to stipulate or to order a verdict.
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