Abstract
In this paper I will offer some methodological reflections on legal science and its relations with the natural sciences and above all with the ‘human sciences’. The basic assumption throughout is that the intellectual activity which I call ‘legal science’ is truly a science on the grounds of its substantial epistemological similarity to the other scientific disciplines. This presupposes a unitary image of science, such as is made possible by post- positivist conceptions. Such a unitary image embraces all varieties of science while allowing of a partial methodological autonomy within each of the particular sciences(1). Here there is a useful analogy to be drawn between science and a game which comprises within itself many sub-games connected by ‘family resemblances’(2). Putting it shortly, there are methodological analogies and similarities among all the particular scientific ‘sub- games’, and this justifies us in referring them all to a common image of science.
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