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Guilherme da Franca Couto Fernandes de Almeida¹, Noel Struchiner², Ivar Rodriguez Hannikainen³

¹Law School, Insper Institute of Education and Research, Brazil.

|September 10, 2022

Summary

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Judgments about rule violations depend on morality. This study shows that the concept of a rule has a dual character, encompassing both descriptive and normative criteria, rather than being solely pragmatic or a mix of text and purpose.

Keywords:

Experimental jurisprudence General jurisprudence Rule violation The concept of rule

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Philosophy of Law
Linguistics

Background:

Rule violation judgments are influenced by morality, leading to ambiguity when rules are broken blamelessly.
Existing theories (pragmatic, mixed character, dual character) offer different explanations for this phenomenon.

Purpose of the Study:

To experimentally adjudicate between competing theories of the concept of rule.
To investigate whether rule violation judgments are driven by pragmatics, a unified concept of text and purpose, or distinct descriptive and normative criteria.

Main Methods:

Four studies were conducted to test the proposed explanations.
Studies involved experimental designs to elicit rule violation judgments and linguistic tests to differentiate conceptual structures.

Main Results:

Results were incompatible with the pragmatic view.
Study 2 indicated that the concept of rule differs from certain mixed character concepts on linguistic tests.
Studies 3-5 provided evidence supporting the dual character view of rules.

Conclusions:

The concept of rule possesses a dual character, integrating both descriptive and normative aspects.
This finding has significant implications for understanding legal judgments and the nature of rules.