Legal formalism See JURISPRUDENCE.

Legal immunity See HOHFELD.

Legal liability See HOHFELD.

Legal moralism the view (defended in this century by, e.g., Lord Patrick...

Legal no-right See HOHFELD.

Legal positivism a theory about the nature of law, commonly thought to...

Legal power See HOHFELD.

Legal principle See DWORKIN.

Legal privilege See HOHFELD.

Legal realism a theory in philosophy of law or jurisprudence broadly characterized...

Legal right See HOHFELD, RIGHTS.

Legal rule See DWORKIN.

Legalism, Chinese See CHINESE LEGALISM.

Legisign See PEIRCE.

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (1646–1716), German rationalist philosopher who made seminal contributions...

Leibniz’s law See IDENTITY, LEIBNIZ.

Lekton (Greek, 'what can be said'), a Stoic term sometimes translated...

Lemmata See COMMENTARIES ON PLATO.

Lenin Vladimir Ilich (1870–1924), Russian political leader and Marxist theorist, a...

Leopold, Friedrich See NOVALIS.

Lequier Jules (1814–62), French philosopher, educated in Paris, whose works were...

Leroux Pierre (1797–1871), French philosopher reputed to have introduced the word...

Lesniewski Stanislaw (1886–1939), Polish philosopher-logician, cofounder, with Lukasiewicz and Kotarbigski, of...

Lessing Gotthold Ephraim (1729–81), German philosopher, critic, and literary figure whose...

Leucippus (fl. c.440 B.C.), Greek pre-Socratic philosopher credited with founding atomism,...

Level See TYPE THEORY.

Levi ben Gershom See GERSONIDES. Levinas, Emmanuel (1906–95), Lithuanian-born French philosopher. Educated as...

Lewis C(larence) I(rving) (1883–1964), American philosopher who advocated a version of...

Lexical ambiguity See AMBIGUITY.

Lexical ordering also called lexicographic ordering, a method, given a finite ordered...