Fictions in legal reasoning

Dialogue 61 (3):451-463 (2022)
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A legal fiction is a knowingly false assumption that is given effect in a legal proceeding and that participants are not permitted to disprove. I offer a semantic pretence theory that shows how fiction-involving legal reasoning works.

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Manish Oza
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Bentham and the common law tradition.Gerald J. Postema (ed.) - 1986 - New York: Oxford University Press.
The Pragmatic Value of Legal Fictions.Douglas Lind - 2015 - In William Twining & Maksymilian Del Mar (eds.), Legal Fictions in Theory and Practice. Cham: Springer Verlag.

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