A rhetorical view is here assumed with the purpose of inquiring about the pertinence of establishing - more than simple interpretative and rhetorical canons - epistemological and/or argumentative paradigms and their correlative theory models that legitimate the making of the law, especially concerning what is called "normative application". We intend to evaluate in what degree is the manipulation of law dependent on an epistemology or on a kind of rhetoric, or still on a possible but maybe improbable rhetorical epistemology of metaphor.
Rhetoric; Metaphor; Model