The value of the empirical

Authors

  • Pablo Sánchez-Ostiz Gutiérrez Universidad de Navarra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/rdpc.29.2023.35645

Abstract

When the criminal-legal Dogmatics elaborates its statements (proposals, assessments, structures...), it uses a normative (or comprehensive) language, but on the basis of empirical realities, typical of the language of an empirical (or explanatory) character. In this work, we will dwell on the peculiarities of this empirical or explanatory language, based on causality, and used with descriptive functions, as well as measurement and connection functions. It also examines the various relationships, conditioning factors and risks that exist between fields of knowledge: between comprehensive and explanatory knowledge, between different types of comprehensive knowledge, and between the different degrees of abstraction of each of them. Just as empirical elements cannot be ignored, neither can they be used as elements of a comprehensive nature.

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Published

2023-03-07

How to Cite

Sánchez-Ostiz Gutiérrez, P. (2023). The value of the empirical. Revista De Derecho Penal Y Criminología, 29(29). https://doi.org/10.5944/rdpc.29.2023.35645

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Derecho Penal