PHL 606 Lecture Notes - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Legal Positivism, Fallacy
23 May 2014
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P a g e | 1 law is depends on what law ought to be! Theorists view of what law is are influences by what law ought to be whether what. Either stick to definition and not include some things that might be law or you have to make a new definition over and over until it is too complicated: another approach rather than defining law (through conditions) . Think that the conditions business is misguided when it comes to concepts like law: philosopher ludwig wittgenstein pointed out that many concepts have the form of a. Network of similarities (ex: games, families: ex: there is no feature that all games and only games have in common . But games resemble one another through overlapping sets of common or similar features network of similarities we can use the same idea for defining law .
