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    Challenges→Sound and legitimate adjudication under natural law theory requires prioritizing social-fact sourced law and setting it aside only when it is too iniquitous to apply.

    Adjudication that treats moral reasoning as a residual override rather than constitutive of legal interpretation misrepresents how law's normative force actually operates in hard cases.

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    Adjudication(as the process where Finnis believes moral reasoning matters)
    The process of a judge or court hearing a case and making a legal decision about it.
    Legal interpretation(as used in philosophy of law)
    The process of figuring out what a law actually means and how it should be applied to real situations.
    Moral reasoning(implied in the statement's discussion of how moral judgments work)
    The process of thinking through whether an action is right or wrong by considering different reasons and circumstances.
    Residual override(as used in philosophy of law)
    Something that only steps in as a backup or last resort, rather than being a core part of how a system normally works.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)

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    hard cases(philosophy of art, definitional debates)
    Entities whose artistic status is theoretically unclear, such as Duchamp's Bottlerack (an ordinary object presented as art) and Cage's 4'33" (a composition of silence)
    normative force(Used to describe what Korsgaard's account aims to explain)
    The property in virtue of which an agent's reasons are binding on the agent.

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