Legal Positivism Social Source Thesis and Metaphysical Grounding: Employing Metaphysical Grounding based on Metaphysical Laws
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عنوان ژورنال: Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2082-3304,2082-3304
DOI: 10.36280/afpifs.2019.2.5