ABSTRACT
Controversy surrounds not only the acceptability of the many attempts made to define jurisprudence; the very possibility of producing a precise definition is challenged, as is the validity of the defining process. This chapter is predicated on the assumptions that any aspect of human knowledge, such as jurisprudence, is amenable to investigation and analysis; that these activities can result in the delineation of content, the recognition of the existence of sets of interrelated phenomena from which specific types of problem emerge; and that the essential qualities of content underlying patterns of recognition can be adumbrated in the form of a tentative definition.
