法律解释的认识论困境及其消解

在主客二分的认识图式下,法律解释的目标是追求具有客观实存性的立法者意图或者文本意图,然而方法论意义上的法律解释难以摆脱其在认识论上的主观性与客观性、历史性与非历史性的悖论.对法律解释的认识论目标进行哲学检讨,可以得知方法论意义上的法律解释犯了真理符合论的谬误,因在本体论意义上对真理错误的预设导致了认识论目标的谬误.所以,必须对法律解释的目标重新检讨,将法律解释的客观性与有效性区分开来,而法律解释的有效性是通过融贯性和共识性共同保障的.

Epistemological Puzzles and Elimination in Legal Interpretation

Under the subjectivity and objectivity of epistemological schema,the purpose of legal interpretation is to achieve the objective and factual intention of legislators or in legal texts.However,the legal interpretation from the perspective of methodology can hardly escape from the paradox of subjectivity and objectivity and the paradox of historical and non-historical views in epistemology.Philosophically examining the epistemological purpose of legal interpretation indicates that the legal interpretation from the perspective of methodology commits a fallacy of correspondence theory of truth,in which an ontologically false presupposition for truth induces a wrong epistemological objective.Therefore,the objective of legal interpretation should be reviewed to distinguish the objectivity of the interpretation from the validity of the interpretation.And the validity is guaranteed by coherence and consensus.