Scientific Truth and Judicial Truth: Philosophy and Method

Massimo  Mancini

doi:10.6000/2817-2302.2023.02.02

Authors

Massimo Mancini Italian Society of Philosophy of Law, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6000/2817-2302.2023.02.02

Keywords:

Thruth, epistemology, method, hypothesis, hermeneutics

Abstract

A sinthetic excursus of modern epistemology across some methodological contributes of Aristotle, Descartes, Galilei and Freud, with special regard to alethic and verisimilar knowledge in law sciences and legal reasoning, in order to analyse dialectic opposition of involved parts in legal argumentations and verdict’s rational motivation in trials.

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