A Study of Epistemology in Legal History Book

	Introduction	1
	Some methodological issues	2
	Vocabulary	4
	Notes	7
Pt. 1	Doing something as a rule
	A rule is one thing, a habit is another	11
	Reflections on old societies	12
	A social rule as a matter of consciousness	16
	Habits	19
	Conclusions on the necessity of the distinction	21
	The change in modern society	22
	Habitual adoption of reasons	26
Pt. 2	Linguistic jurisprudence and "descriptive sociology"
	The epistemological background of linguistic jurisprudence	35
	Words and things	39
	"A rule is not a habit" in this context	43
	Introduction to the complexity of the concrete	44
	The social reality	45
	A preliminary conclusion	49
	The argument from the central cases	49
	Cultural fragmentation	52
	Communication	55
	The social group	57
Pt. 3	Linguistic jurisprudence as philosophy
A	An epistemological ground for conceptual questions
	Clarifications on our change of viewpoint	87
	Nominalism	91
	Our language and its rules	93
	What does linguistic jurisprudence believe in?	95
	Different languages, different concepts	97
	Linguistic jurisprudence is a conceptualism	99
	Concepts	100
	The indeterminacy of concepts	102
	Family resemblances and old fashioned conceptualism	110
	The paradoxes of linguistic jurisprudence	114
	A summary comparison of linguistic jurisprudence with old fashioned conceptualism	121
	Intermission: re-targeting	123
B	The method of the attention to language and its problems
	The search into language and the distruct of abstraction	125
	The search into ordinary language and my favourite understanding of linguistic jurisprudence	129
	About the accusation of conservatism	133
	About the diversity of semantic structures	136
	Introduction to the problem of awareness	138
	Rules of language, rules of logic	138
	The lack of awareness	141
	A brief comment on the demand for awareness and control	143
	Appendix: Selective literature review
	Moles	165
	Martin	175
	Edgeworth	185
	Books and articles cited	193