Norm and Truth Edited by Marek Piechowiak School of Humanities and Journalism in Poznañ Poznañ 2008 Reviewer Tomasz Stawecki Copyediting and linguistic consulting Stephen Mulraney This collection © the School of Humanities and Journalism in Poznañ Contributions © their authors ISBN 978-83-87653-52-1 School of Humanities and Journalism Wy¿sza Szko3a Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa ul. gen. Tadeusza Kutrzeby 10, 61–719 Poznañ www.wsnhid.pl Opracowanie techniczne, 3amanie perfekt, ul. Grodziska 11, 61–363 Poznañ e-mail: dtp@perfekt.pl Contents Preface / vii I. Tradition Stanis3aw Czepita Czes3aw Znamierowski's Conception of the Norm and the Problem of Truth / 3 Jakub Martewicz Truth of Legal Norms in Czes3aw Znamierowski's Philosophy / 8 Giuseppe Lorini The Threefold Role of the Logical Value of Norms / 16 Edoardo Fittipaldi Illusions of Imperatives, Norms, and Truth / 26 Pawe3 £1cki Ethical cognitivism in Finnis's Theory / 39 Andrzej Spycha3a On the Transition from Being to Ought-Is the Problem Real? / 49 II. Theory Amedeo G. Conte Xenonyms. Xenonymy, Synonymy, Synsemy / 57 Marek Piechowiak Can Human Rights be Real? Can Norms be True? / 71 Paolo Di Lucia Founding Norms on Truth versus Founding Truth on Norms / 84 v Guglielmo Siniscalchi Normality as Truth / 94 Angiola Filipponio Phenomenology of the Truth of Norms / 99 Olgierd Pankiewicz Reduction to Objectivity in Law / 110 Antonio Incampo Rules from Truths, Truths from Rules / 117 Stefano Colloca A Priori versus A Posteriori in Axiotics / 125 Lorenzo Passerini Glazel True Norms / 132 Tomasz Koz3owski Legalness-Philosophical Truth as a Concept of Law / 141 Maurycy Zajêcki Axiological Presuppositions of Legal Text: Some Ideas in the Neopositive Approach / 150 III. Practice Jacek Sobczak and Agnieszka Stêpiñska The Truth of the Court and the Truth of the Media / 161 Ksenia Kakareko Human Rights in the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus: Between Declarations and Real Guarantees / 170 Maria Go3da-Sobczak Historical Truth and the Possibilities of its Normative Consequences / 182 Piotr Piesiewicz The Real or Virtual World-Legal Norms in Virtual Worlds / 193 About the authors / 203 vi Contents