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Showing posts with label Meaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meaning. Show all posts
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Recasting Canons of Interpretation and Construction into "Canonical" Queries: Further Canonical Queries of Presented or Transmitted Text

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                                                                                         Abstract This Article draws from, builds upon, and ...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Hermeneutics and Anselm's Ontological Argument: Lessons for Lawyers and Others On Existential Proof

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When lawyers and others explore the limits of logical proof in proving matters of existence, it's quite useful to explore St. Anselm...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

My Common Thread

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Though the subject matters of my writing may seem quite diverse, there is a common thread. What is it? That common thread is a hermeneutic p...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

How To Do Things With Signs: An Overview of Semiotics for Lawyers and Others

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Click HERE for a link to my current draft of "How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education." ...
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Monday, June 3, 2019

Voltaire and the Semiotics of Dress

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For those who doubt that there is a semiotics of dress, here is Voltaire wigged and wigless. Many thanks to the National Gallery of Art in W...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Musical Score for "The Flood" from "Charms and Knots"

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Click here for a link to Thomas Swenson's Musical Score for "The Flood."
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Making Good Sense: Pragmatism’s Mastery of Meaning, Truth, and Workable Rule of Law

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Here is the abstract for my latest article forthcoming in the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy. In the article, I try to take a m...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Addition to Strings of Thought 5-19-2018

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Hermeneutics                                 To Gadamer Though eye must squint, eye must explore the bird Who plays at the horizo...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Why Legal Writing Is "Doctrinal" and More Importantly Profound

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It is high time that we end the disparate treatment of legal writing professors and the use of such disparaging labels as "non-doctrina...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (2/7/18)

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2/7/18 A legislative bill or other proposal isn’t simply a string of words on a page. Instead, a legislative bill or other proposal involve...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/21/18)

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Speaker Meaning 1/21/18 “Original” speaker meaning includes the unexplored.  Imagine I buy a netted device I categorize as “my hammock...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

The Inherent Inseparability of Doctrine & Skills

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A quick screen shot of my brief bit in Linda Edwards' fantastic new book The Doctrine Skills Divide: Legal Education's Self-Inflic...
Monday, July 10, 2017

President Trump & Word Association

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As a lover of words, I am of course interested in the following Quinnipiac poll which asked responders "What is the first word that co...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A Sonnet on the Jerusalem Cross

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For me, the Jerusalem Cross is endlessly inspiring:   Christ before Paul; the Kingdom that’s within; the wisdom of the Buddha; Will...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Neil Gorsuch? Originalism and the Ten Commandments

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Current Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch claims that judges should “apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and lookin...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Parsing Babble in North Carolina's HB-2 and Calling Out the Need for Immediate Repeal

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Read here my parsing of ambiguous bathroom provisions in North Carolina's HB-2 and the immediate need to repeal the flawed statute i...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Ekphrasis & Prose: Sonnet Translations of Poe & Hawthorne

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I sometimes wonder whether a prose piece should have been verse from the outset.  Could the deep meaning have been more effectively capture...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Originalism and the Fall of Icarus

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Well, here we go again. With Neil Gorsuch as the current Supreme Court nominee, once more we hear praises of “originalism” as a judic...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Wake Forest Law Review Publishes "Revisiting Langdell: Legal Education Reform & The Lawyer's Craft"

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The Wake Forest Law Review has published its 2015 Legal Education Reform Symposium volume entitled Revisiting Langdell: Legal Education...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce: That Common Measure of the Number Three (An Addition to "The Apology Box")

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      Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce A "candle" burns a finger, lights a room-- The only sense that "candle"...