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On the Entanglement of Coherence

Pethick, Stephen (2014) On the Entanglement of Coherence. Ratio Juris, 27 (1). pp. 116-137. ISSN 0952-1917. E-ISSN 1467-9337. (doi:10.1111/raju.12034) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:30488)

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Abstract

Although coherence has become one of the key concepts in contemporary legal theory, its meaning is taken almost universally to be elusive, complex and controversial. However, these difficulties are due just to the failure of commentators to distinguish the intension of the notion from other features of its (many) referents in extension. The oversight has caused qualities to be ascribed routinely to coherence that properly attach to various object(s) of which coherence is predicated, and which a theorist happens to have in mind when bringing coherence into view. This conceptual error has significance for the substance of present claims made for the use of the notion in law. Freed from the entanglement, coherence emerges thinner and fitter, better able to be deployed with confidence in legal application.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/raju.12034
Uncontrolled keywords: coherence
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Jenny Harmer
Date Deposited: 14 Sep 2012 09:13 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 10:56 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/30488 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Pethick, Stephen.

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