法律推理的概念辨正

既有的三类法律推理概念失之过狭,这是由于它们对法律推理本质的认识不够准确。法律推理本质上是一种思维活动,而非权威性的制度实践；它包含法律事实的发现和认定、法律规范的获取和证立以及根据法律事实和法律规范对法律结论的推导等内容。故而,法律推理是人们在解决法律问题时,根据证据等信息并在与法律规范的调适中发现和认定法律事实、获取并论证法律规范,并在此基础上推导和论证法律结论的一种思维活动。

The Concept of Legal Reasoning

The concepts of legal reasoning can be roughly divided into three categories, which are all too narrow, because they all misunderstand the nature of legal reasoning. Legal reasoning is a kind of thinking activity on its nature, rather than an authoritative institutional practice. It includes the discovery and identification of legal facts, the acquisition and justification of legal norms, and the inference of the legal conclusions according to the legal facts and legal norms. According to this, legal reasoning can be defined as a kind of thinking activity, in which people solve a legal problem, discover and identify the legal facts by using the information such as evidence and adjusting to the legal norms, acquest and justify the legal norms, and infer the legal conclusions according to the legal facts and legal norms.