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positivism and legal science  

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  • There have been various attempts to turn the law into a scientific body of knowledge. In most general terms, one may regard these attempts as extensions of positivism, the nineteenthand twentieth-century philosophical movement devoted to the conversion of theological and metaphysical doctrines to systems of logically organized and empirically verifiable propositions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Positivism and Legal Science]

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