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

    The distinction between 'discovering' law's meaning and 'creating' it through evaluation suggests some propositions are simply true or false regardless of judges' evaluative commitments.

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    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.
    Objective truth (in law)(as contrasted with subjective interpretation based on a judge's personal values)
    The idea that certain legal meanings or propositions are simply right or wrong independent of what any individual person believes or wants.
    Philosophy of law(the broader field this statement belongs to)
    The branch of philosophy that asks fundamental questions about what law is, where it comes from, and how judges should interpret it.
    evaluative commitments(as used in ethics)
    The values and principles you've decided matter to you and that guide how you think something should be judged or done.
    jurisprudence

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    The study of law and legal systems, including how courts interpret and apply the law.

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