Abstract
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This chapter is all about exploring the positions and starting points that
might affect a person's amenity or ability to find a way into legal theory. Our
training as lawyers means all of us think alike and approach legal problems in the
same way, more or less. But what makes some of us question the origins of settled
doctrines, or argue that statutory provisions are open to interpretation when
others of us would neither see nor think about the possibility that a different
reading of the text of the law might exist? A range of factors may apply that you
may have already picked up from the last two chapters, but intelligence (or lack
thereof) is not one of them. You already know the answer, don't you? All of us
think about things differently. This may because we are introvert or extravert,
because we are motivated by political standpoints or cultural viewpoints that are
embedded into our NLDBs. But that is not the end of the story.
We will now turn to a deeper exploration of some of these concepts,