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    Challenges→If the rules of recognition are coordination conventions, it is relatively easy to explain how they may give rise to obligations.

    Shapiro's planning theory reveals that rules of recognition are constitutive of legal institutions, not solutions to antecedent problems, undermining the derivation of obligation from coordination.

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    Antecedent problems(problems that legal rules are NOT solving, according to Shapiro)
    Problems that exist before you try to solve them—issues people face that then require a solution.
    Derivation of obligation(what this theory undermines or calls into question)
    Explaining or proving where our duty to follow the law comes from—what justifies why we should obey legal rules.
    Legal institutions(as used in jurisprudence)
    The courts, legislatures, and other official systems that create and enforce laws.
    Planning theory(as used in philosophy of action)
    A theory of how agents (people) make decisions by creating plans in advance, which then guide their actions when they actually encounter situations.
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    A philosopher (Laurie Shapiro) who studies the philosophy of mind and cognitive science; she has argued specific criteria for when we should consider something a real scientific category.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
    Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
    coordination(as used in metaphysics)
    The fact that two separate things work together or match up perfectly in a way that seems purposeful or connected.
    rules of recognition(Used in the sense developed in legal positivism; contrasted with moral sources of obligation.)
    The constitutive rules that define what counts as law within a legal system — i.e., rules that identify valid law — but which do not themselves generate moral obligations to follow the law.

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