The article presents
Aristotle's and H. L. A. Hart's approaches to indeterminacy of law. It is shown
that both Hart and Aristotle have associated indeterminacy with the general
nature of law and legal rules, but they interpret this relationship in different
ways, as well as in different ways they interpret the reasons of general nature
of law and indeterminacy. If for Aristotle the general nature of law is the
cause of indeterminacy, then for Hart it is a consequence. But both
philosophers definitely agree that for a more effective legal regulation, a
margin of indeterminacy in legal rules should nevertheless be tolerated.