RIBEIRO, Gonçalo de Almeida. Between Legality and Anarchy: A Comment on Larry Alexander”s Essay on Law and Politics. []. , 5, 3, pp.13-21. ISSN 2183-184X.

Larry Alexander argues that first-order reasoning tells us both that we need rules to be followed and that we should not follow rules. Herein lies “the gap”, a problem that he finds intractable. I argue that the problem is real but also manageable, and offer reasons to resist an extreme form of legal skepticism.

: Rules; Legal Indeterminacy; First-order reasoning; Second-order reasoning; Regularity.

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