At the core of Hohfeld's contribution to legal theory is a conceptual framework for the analysis of the legal positions occupied by agents in intersubjective legal relations. Hohfeld presented a system of eight “fundamental” concepts relying on notions of opposition and correlation. Throughout the years, a number of authors have followed Hohfeld in applying the notion of opposition to analyze legal concepts. Many of these authors have accounted for Hohfeld's theory in direct analogy with the standard deontic hexagon. This paper reviews some of these accounts and extends them employing recent developments from opposition theory. In particular, we are able to extend application of opposition theory to an open conception of the law. We also account for the implications of abandoning the assumption of conflict-freedom and admitting seemingly conflicting legal positions. This enables a fuller analysis of Hohfeld's conceptual analytical framework. We also offer a novel analysis of Hohfeld's power positions.

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将反对理论之光投射到霍菲尔德的基本法律概念上

霍菲尔德对法律理论贡献的核心是一个概念框架，用于分析主体间法律关系中代理人所占据的法律地位。Hohfeld 提出了一个由八个“基本”概念组成的系统，这些概念依赖于对立和相关的概念。多年来，许多作者追随霍菲尔德，将反对概念应用于分析法律概念。这些作者中的许多人将霍菲尔德的理论与标准的道义六边形直接类比。本文回顾了其中一些说明，并利用对立理论的最新发展对其进行了扩展。特别是，我们能够将对立理论的应用扩展到一个开放的法律概念。我们还考虑了放弃无冲突假设并承认看似相互冲突的法律立场. 这使得能够更全面地分析霍菲尔德的概念分析框架。我们还对霍菲尔德的权力职位进行了新颖的分析。