Durkheim’s social facts were rule-governed actions informed by ideas

Evidence

Value judgments inhere throughout; it is not a mechanical process. Values do not form in a vacuum; their range depends always on factual limitations. Thus, judges’ decisions are governed by their beliefs about facts as well as abstract rules; the act of deciding involves both the determination of material facts and the determination of what rules are to be applied to the facts. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 160 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Judicial decisions are governed by beliefs about facts and rules — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 160; Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 486

Related

• Judicial decisions are governed by beliefs about facts and rules (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Judicial decisions are governed by beliefs about facts and rules #corroborates (0.55) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 160