If procedurally defective enactments fail to constitute law at all, then the claim's framework of 'setting aside' posited law mischaracterizes the adjudicative task as one of exception rather than legal identification.

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Adjudicative task(as used in philosophy of law): The job of a judge or court to hear a case and make a decision about what the law means and how it applies.
Constitute(metaphysics): To be the parts or components that make up something—like how ingredients constitute a cake.
Enactments(as used in legal philosophy): Laws or rules that have been officially passed and put into effect by a government or authority.
Legal identification(as used in legal philosophy): The process of determining what actually counts as law versus what doesn't, based on legal principles and criteria.
Procedurally defective(as used in law and philosophy of law): When something breaks the official rules or steps that are supposed to be followed, even if the final result might seem okay.
Setting aside(as used in law and judicial review): The legal act of canceling or invalidating a law or decision, treating it as if it never had legal force.
posited law(Used interchangeably with 'purely positive law' and 'social-fact sourced law' in the passage.): Law that is sourced from social facts — enacted, recognized, or pedigreed by institutional social processes — as distinct from moral or natural law standards.

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