Practice question · Numerical answer
How many distinct senses of the word "law" does this lesson separate?
Hints
- Norm and fact are two of them.
- Norm, fact, value, and knowledge.
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4
Why
Four: norm, fact, value and knowledge. The number matters much less than the reflex of asking which sense a claim is using, because the commonest error in legal writing is answering a question posed in one sense with evidence drawn from another.
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