Legal liability concepts can be redescribed without metaphysical notions.

Evidence

The principle of legal liability can be redescribed without reference to metaphysical entities such as mind and causation. This redescription is an important part of the project of a pragmatic jurisprudence, although it will not please those for whom law’s semantic level is its most interesting and important. — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 88

Categorization

• DEFINE: Capsules what a pragmatic jurisprudence’s redescription project is, and names its likely opponents.
• XREF: Connects to Posner’s broader pragmatic-legal-theory corpus and to the legal realists’ earlier stimulus analyses.