The argument of theoretical disagreement has been deemed the most serious contemporary challenge to traditional views law, not merely for academic legal positivists but all lawyers and scholars. Although coined by Ronald Dworkin specific purpose opposing conventionalist positivist theories recognises general truth that jurisprudence is an inevitably agonistic enterprise. Nowadays, it one discus...

Logical positivism (later and more accurately called logical empiricism) is a school of philosophy that combines empiricism, the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge of the world, with a version of rationalism, the idea that our knowledge includes a component that is not derived from observation. It grew from the discussions of the so-called "First Vienna Circle" that...