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    Supports→Dworkin's 'law as integrity' shows that determining what the law *is* already embeds evaluative reasoning about what it ought to mean.

    If law had determinate meaning independent of evaluation, hard cases wouldn't exist; their prevalence shows interpretation necessarily involves normative reasoning about legal legitimacy.

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    Determinate meaning(whether 'omnipotent' has a real, concrete meaning)
    A clear, specific definition that actually tells us something definite about reality rather than being vague or unclear.
    Independent of evaluation(describing whether law's meaning depends on people's judgments)
    Existing or being true on its own, without needing anyone to judge it or decide what it's worth.
    Legal legitimacy(in legal philosophy)
    Whether a law or legal decision has the moral authority to be obeyed—whether it's fair and justified, not just that it officially exists.
    Normative reasoning(contrasted with simply describing facts)
    Thinking about how things *should* be or what is *right*, rather than just describing how things actually are.
    hard cases

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    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)
    interpretation(Formal semantics for modal nonmonotonic logic)
    A complete, consistent set of literals

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