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transcendental nonsense: a standalone construct

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Jurisprudence

the critique that legal concepts are often empty abstractions, to be replaced by asking what rules actually do in practice.

In jurisprudence, transcendental nonsense refers to the critique that legal concepts are often empty abstractions, to be replaced by asking what rules actually do in practice. This meaning comes from Cohen (1935) in Columbia Law Review.[1]

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  1. Cohen, F. S. (1935). Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach. Columbia Law Review, 35(6), 809. https://doi.org/10.2307/1116300

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