The article proposes an intuitive approach to the so-called ‘hard cases’ in law as an alternative to traditional legal-theoretical accounts of this phenomenon. The main thesis of the intuitive approach is that all judgments and decisions made in a legal setting – including both legal practice and legal theory – are intuition-based. Hence, conceptualizations of legal phenomena can be made more accurate if they are constructed with the use of scientific knowledge on the role of intuition in legal reasoning. An exemplification of this approach is presented in the context of ‘hard cases’. Traditional legal-theoretical accounts of the latter, such as Hart’s and Dworkin’s, are juxtaposed with the Representational Change Theory of Insight. The proposed analysis claims that the Representational Change Theory allows for a more plausible and comprehensive account of legal reasoning in hard cases in comparison to the traditional legal-theoretical views on this issue.

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直观的案例分析方法

本文提出了一种对所谓的“硬性案件”的直观方法，以替代这种现象的传统法律理论解释。直观方法的主要论点是，在法律环境中做出的所有判断和决定（包括法律实践和法律理论）都是基于直觉的。因此，如果利用关于直觉在法律推理中的作用的科学知识来构建法律现象，则可以使它们更加精确。在“困难案例”的背景下，提供了这种方法的示例。后者的传统法律理论解释，例如哈特（Hart）和德沃金（Dworkin），与见解的代表性变化理论并列。