“One of the most important tasks performed by lawyers and judges is the ‘interpretation’ of legal texts, including constitutions, statutes, regulations, rules, contracts, and the list goes on. One aspect of communication involves the linguistic meaning the words and phrases that make up the text: this aspect of meaning is sometimes called ‘semantics’. The bare semantic meaning of a legal text is sometimes called the ‘literal meaning’. But the whole meaning of a text almost always is richer than the literal meaning …” (more)
[Lawrence Solum, Legal Theory Blog, 6 December]
First posted 2020-12-06 17:56:07
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