Teleological interpretation of international investment agreements: From preamble to preamble [PDF]
This article tackles the general issue of the general rule on treaty interpretation envisaged in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties as applied in investment treaty arbitration.
Đajić Sanja V.
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Kant’s Antinomy of Teleology: In Defense of a Traditional Interpretation [PDF]
Kant’s Antinomy of Teleological Judgment is unique in offering two pairs of oppositions, one of regulative maxims, and the other of constitutive principles. Here I defend a traditional interpretation of the antinomy— as proposed, for example, by Stadler (
Hamid, Nabeel
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‘Obsessed with goals’: Functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans [PDF]
Humans show a strong and early inclination to interpret observed behaviours of others as goal-directed actions. We identify two main epistemic functions that this 'teleological obsession' serves: on-line prediction and social learning. We show how teleological action interpretations can serve these functions by drawing on two kinds of inference ...
Csibra, Gergely, Gergely, G.
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When shapes are more than shapes: perceptual, developmental, and neurophysiological basis for attributions of animacy and theory of mind [PDF]
Among a variety of entities in their environment, what do humans consider alive or animate and how does this attribution of animacy promote development of more abstract levels of mentalizing?
Sajjad Torabian, Emily D. Grossman
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This article explores the tendency of investment tribunals to resort to teleological interpretation and to the protection and promotion of foreign investments as a standard goal of investment treaties. It further explores how this tendency relates to the
Sanja Djajić
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A Teleological Interpretation of the Applicability of Rhetoric in the Peripatetic Tradition
For Aristotle, the classification of the audience is the basis of distinguishing the main genres of rhetoric. Due to the auditor receiving political, judicial or educational content, there is a distinction into deliberative, judicial, and epideictic ...
Maria Joanna Gondek
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Teleological reduction as hermeneutical instrument [PDF]
This paper discusses the teleological reduction, which is one of the most important forms of the objective-teleological interpretation. Then, it points out how this hermeneutic instrument by it's nature and way of application confirms to the fullest ...
Bovan Saša B.
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The Court of Justice of the E.U.: A Contextualist Court
The Court of Justice of the European Union (E.U.) is sometimes labelled “a teleological court”. In this paper I will show why it is a misleading label. Then I will propose a more appropriate label for it – “a contextualist court” – and describe what such
Davor Petrić
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Interpretation of Wills - Does Endumeni Case Apply?
This article argues that the general approach to documentary interpretation articulated in Natal Joint Municipal Pension Fund v Endumeni Municipality 2012 4 SA 593 (SCA) (Endumeni) applies also to the interpretation of wills, subject to adaptation for ...
Fareed Moosa
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The Semiotic Background of the Ineffective Investigation in the Weird Detective Story [PDF]
The classical detective story is based on a teleological certainty offered by the narrative. In these stories, the detective successfully solves the crime, and the lawful order is restored in an assuring manner, so the closure of the narrative ...
Norbert Gyuris
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