The principle of legal liability can be redescribed without reference to metaphysical entities such as mind and causation. This redescription is an important part of the project of a pragmatic jurisprudence, although it will not please those for whom law's semantic level is its most interesting and important.

DEFINE: Defines the pragmatic jurisprudence project as redescribing legal liability without reference to metaphysical entities like mind and causation.

Richard A. Posner, Richard A. Posner - What Ha…, loc. 88