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6 Int'l J. Semiotics L. 3 (1993)

handle is hein.journals/intjsemi6 and id is 1 raw text is: Revue Internationale de Scfmiotique Juridique VI/16 [19931 DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATIONS ET PRATIQUE DES DROITS DE L'HOMME De la grammaire aux formes de vie dans la rhetorique des droits de l'homme par ENRIQUE P. HABA Universidad de Costa Rica One might say of such words that they serve as pegs: it's marvellous what a lot of things you can put on them ... (Waismann, Essays, 1951, 136) Here the term language-game is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, or of a form of life. Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it. (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, 1953, §§23 et 124). I must warn you that I can't see any ground whatever for renouncing one of the most fundamental rights of man, the right of talking nonsense. (Waismann, Essays, 1951, 137) En un certain sens, cette etude porte sur les definitions des droits de I'homme (DH). Non que je tache de trancher A leur sujet ou sur les innombrables interpr6tations qui leur ont 616 associees face A la diversit6 des situations juridiques et, en gendral, sociales. Etant donne l'6ventail extremement large et vari6 de ce que, aujourd'hui surtout, on met en rapport avec cette expression, il serait assez 6tonnant que chacune des definitions existantes ne renvoie pas A certains exemples on le label DH est de fait utilise dans le sens signale, servant ainsi A le justifier. Lorsqu'une definition contient, comme c'est habituellement le cas dans le domaine consid&er, des references conceptuelles plut6t indeterminees (dignite, nature

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