LAWS6023 Study Guide - Final Guide: Character Theory, English Criminal Law, Homicide Act 1957
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One such soldier" in the war" against textualism is. Stanley eugene fish who associates himself with a minority philosophical traditional called anti-foundationalism in the jurisprudential landscape, and is an advocate of intentionalism. Necessarily, he fervently rejects the dominant textualist" account of interpretation and the nature of meaning. Fish asserts instead, that background precedes and produces meaning. He argues that textualism"s account of interpretation is misleading. Finally, he thinks that the fears textualism is a reaction to are unfounded. Textualism supports the thesis that interpretation begins and ends with the text. Consider the sentence let"s avoid the draft. this seems to have a clear and compelling meaning with no recourse to interpretation or context, says the textualist. The idea that the inside is a product of the outside. Fish asserts that it is wrong because it only appears to be context free and to repel interpretation .
