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#48361. yeaux
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Who said, "The life of the law is experience"?
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gmackematix
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
[Jun 14 04 8:17 PM] gmackematix writes:
In full, the quote is "The life of the law is experience, not logic."
This is quite ironic from one whose namesake inspired the name of the world's most famous practitioner of deductive logic!
Jun 13 04, 8:53 PM
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yeaux
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The statement is in his book, The Common Law. This was an attempt to debunk formalism in legal theory, and to champion realism.
Jun 15 04, 7:06 AM
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