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That strict interpretivist outfit is clearly partisan, because it is a party administered and mobilized for the purpose of advocating a strict interpretation of the U.S.
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In fact, this approach to social explanation stands in broad opposition to another important approach, the interpretivist approach.
Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009
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In fact, this approach to social explanation stands in broad opposition to another important approach, the interpretivist approach.
MacIntyre and Taylor on the human sciences Daniel Little 2009
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I recall Celia, Tom, and I each going out of our way to state that both objectivist and interpretivist approaches will be crucial to social science research going forward.
How Online Communities and Flawed Reasoning Sound a Death Knell for Qualitative Methods 2009
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So let's consider two philosophers who have made original contributions to the historicist and interpretivist side of the debate, within the Anglo-American tradition.
Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009
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So let's consider two philosophers who have made original contributions to the historicist and interpretivist side of the debate, within the Anglo-American tradition.
MacIntyre and Taylor on the human sciences Daniel Little 2009
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(Dworkin 1986, and see also the entry interpretivist theories of law) which plays such a central role in Dworkin's jurisprudential thought involves interpreters, ˜imposing purpose on an object or practice in order to make of it the best possible example of the form or genre to which it is taken to belong.™
Interpretation and Coherence in Legal Reasoning Dickson, Julie 2005
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The attitude in question comprises two components: the assumption that the practice does not merely exist, but has a purpose or point, and the further assumption that the rules of the practice are not necessarily what they have always been taken to be, but rather are sensitive to, and can be revised in light of, its point (Dworkin 1986 ch. 2; Stavropoulos 2003, interpretivist theories of law).
Interpretation and Coherence in Legal Reasoning Dickson, Julie 2005
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, interpretivist theories of law
Interpretation and Coherence in Legal Reasoning Dickson, Julie 2005
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The interpretivist, however, need not accept that any legal norms or rules are individuated non-interpretively.
Interpretivist Theories of Law Stavropoulos, Nicos 2003
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