Ragionamento giuridico e senso delle parole

For jurists, past and present, the basic problem lies in that the finite is insuf ficient to understand the whole scope of reality, which is unlimited. The law is incapable of comprehensively representing and including the world that it nonetheless aims to regulate. This raises the big issue of monitoring – necessarily fleetingly – the unfolding of events, which implies and presupposes, as in other fields of knowledge, the use of schematic representations aimed at downsizing the empirical level to the conceptual level. The pages written by Giuseppe Terranova – dedicated to legal reasoning and language and to the law as a communicational experience – indicate the path to take to reach the goal: knowledge of the law.