TELEOLOGICAL REDUCTION AS HERMENEUTICAL INSTRUMENT

This paper discusses the teleological reduction, which is one of the most important forms of the objective-teleological interpretation. Then, it points out how this hermeneutic instrument by it’s nature and way of application confirms to the fullest extent the sociological nature of the teleological interpretation and sociological theory of interpretation of law, which we formulated in some earlier works. In fact, considerations about teleological reduction can serve as a convincing confirmation of hermeneutic theory that emphasizes predominant importance of the premise of the facts for understanding the nature of juristic conclusion and the proceeding of the interpretation of law. The point is that in using this means of interpretation of law, fine intertwining of the norm and facts by the logic of a single inductive reasoning becomes especially obvious. The narrowing of the meaning of a term applied in the legal norm (as well as the proceedure of interpretation of law in general) manifests itself as fulfillment of the contents of need from the legal norm, starting from the facts of the case which has found itself before the judge. The work carried out an appropriate typology of various forms of teleological reduction and proposed the corresponding model of its application.