Legal argumentation operates internally, in the construction of decisions, and externally, in the communication of those decisions. In this paper, I am interested in the external communication of legal decisions and the standards they assume. Treating “fine print” as a metonym that stands for much more than just contract disclosure, I explore what legal argumentation highlights and ways in which it marginalises features that a fully informed public should reasonably require for its own deliberations. In the course of this, I consider the nature of the “reasonable person” that the law addresses.

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从法律上讲：公众的理解和法律的精美文字

法律论证在内部，决策的构建中以及外部在这些决策的沟通中起作用。在本文中，我对法律决定及其假定标准的外部交流很感兴趣。我将“精美印刷品”视为代名词，不仅意味着合同披露，而且还探讨了法律论证强调的哪些内容以及以何种方式边缘化充分知情的公众应合理要求自己进行审议的功能。在此过程中，我考虑法律所处理的“合理人”的性质。