1. See Simmonds , Law as a Moral Idea, supra note 1, at 51–56. The idea is turned into the following conceptual claim about law by Simmonds: “The status of rules as law depends on the approximation of the system of rules to an abstract idea of law.” Id. at 130.
2. See Bódig, supra note 16, at 486–90.
3. See id. at 613.
4. See Simmonds , Law as a Moral Idea, supra note 1, at 173; cf. id. at 151.
5. Cf. Gadamer Hans-Georg , Truth and Method 198–304 (2004).