positivists

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Although the Vienna Circle's logical positivists appreciated the Tractatus, they argued that the last few passages, including Proposition 7, are confused. Source: Internet

It is consistent with Dworkin's view—in contrast with the views of legal positivists or legal realists—that no-one in a society may know what its laws are, because no-one may know the best justification for its practices. Source: Internet

Legal positivists main Positivism simply means that law is something that is "posited": laws are validly made in accordance with socially accepted rules. Source: Internet

Logical positivists culled from Ludwig Wittgenstein's early philosophy of language the verifiability principle or criterion of meaningfulness. Source: Internet

Thus, the phenomenological language that most positivists were still emphasizing was to be replaced by the language of mathematical physics. Source: Internet

John Austin, The Providence of Jurisprudence Determined (1831) Contemporary legal positivists have long abandoned this view, and have criticised its oversimplification, H. L. A. Hart particularly. Source: Internet