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Hage, Jaap --- "Facts, values and norms" [2016] ELECD 1005; in Taekema, Sanne; Klink, van Bart; Been, de Wouter (eds), "Facts and Norms in Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 23

Book Title: Facts and Norms in Law

Editor(s): Taekema, Sanne; Klink, van Bart; Been, de Wouter

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781785361081

Section: Chapter 2

Section Title: Facts, values and norms

Author(s): Hage, Jaap

Number of pages: 28

Abstract/Description:

Philosophical and methodological discussions with regard to normative and value judgement presuppose the availability of a set of clear concepts by means of which these discussions can be made fruitful. To provide such a framework, or at least its beginnings, the present chapter makes and explains distinctions between, amongst others, facts and descriptions thereof, kinds of facts, kinds of deontic (normative) facts, kinds of rules, deontic facts and norms, and facts and values. By means of some examples, the usefulness of the introduced concepts for methodological issues is illustrated.