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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1405-0218</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Isonomía]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Isonomía]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1405-0218</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México; Fontamara]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1405-02182021000200009</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5347/isonomia.v0i55.491</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Elephants and Flashlights: On Martin on Raz]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Elefantes y linternas: sobre Martin sobre Raz]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Coelho]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[André L. S.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Federal University of Rio de Janeiro National Faculty of Law ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Brasil</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2021</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2021</year>
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<numero>55</numero>
<fpage>168</fpage>
<lpage>178</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1405-02182021000200009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1405-02182021000200009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1405-02182021000200009&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The paper responds to some of Margaret Martin&#8217;s criticisms of Joseph Raz&#8217;s legal theory in her book Judging Positivism, especially the alleged change in Raz&#8217;s account of adjudication and its potential negative impact on Raz&#8217;s legal theory. To that end, I treat Raz&#8217;s theory in particular, and analytic legal theories in general, as providing a picture of what law would be like if it were fully determined by certain aspects rather than revealing essential aspects of what law is. In this sense, legal theories are compared, as in the famous Indian parable, to blind men trying to describe what an elephant is, a comparison that is later completed by the idea of the periodic rotation of a lantern, which illuminates each time a different aspect of the animal.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen El ensayo responde a algunas de las críticas de Margaret Martin a la teoría jurídica de Joseph Raz, en su libro Judging Positivism, especialmente la afirmación de que Raz cambió su teoría de la adjudicación y que este cambio produjo un impacto negativo en su teoría del derecho. Con ese fin, trato la teoría de Raz en particular, y las teorías jurídicas analíticas en general, como si, en lugar de revelar aspectos esenciales de lo que el derecho es, proporcionaran una imagen de cómo el derecho sería si estuviera totalmente determinado por ciertos aspectos. En este sentido, las teorías jurídicas se comparan, como en la famosa parábola india, con ciegos que intentan describir qué es un elefante, comparación que luego se completa con la idea de la rotación periódica de una linterna, que ilumina cada vez un diferente aspecto del animal.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Joseph Raz]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Margaret Martin]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[legal exclusive positivism]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[adjudication]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Joseph Raz]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Margaret Martin]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[positivismo jurídico excluyente]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[decisión judicial]]></kwd>
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