Paper's abstract

Wadgi Sabete, The Theory of Scientific Knowledge in Law and the Trial of Metaphysics
The rationalistic view point, in exact sciences, mantains that the real is necessarily rational without reason or, more precisely : 1. - the object that one studies is submitted to laws that explain all but that doesn't explain themselves. 2. - reason itself explains itself by reasons that are without reason. The most powerful reason leans on something else that reason. What is therefore the reach of this trial instituted by empiricism against metaphysics ? The instrumental rationalism of Kelsen may be submitted to the same critic. There are good reasons here also for reason to give up.

Key Words : rationalism, meetaphysics, Kelsen
t. 46, 2002 : p. 407-442