The Truth in Law and Its Explication

Abstract

This paper discusses what types of truth play their role in law and in what way such types of truth can be explicated. For this purpose, this paper applies the logical viewpoint and method of predicate logic to clarify the logical structure of legal sentences and legal reasoning through their application. This paper presents its central argument that the concept of truth in law is to be classified into three types of truth, i.e., truth as fact, truth as validity and truth as justice, and provides their formal semantic foundation. This paper analyzes the way to explicate truth as validity and truth as justice in the ways of intensional and extensional explications on the one hand and in the way of the reasoning of justification and the reasoning of creation on the other hand.