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{{a|myth|<br>{{subtable|<big><big><big>'''Đn ⇔ đn'''</big></big></big>}}}}Dilbert’s programme is a legal theory formulated by pioneering German jurist [[Havid Dilbert]]<ref>The programme and its progenitor owe nothing to Scott Adams and everything to [[William Archibald Spooner]], by the way.</ref> in the early part of the 19th century | {{a|myth|<br>{{subtable|<big><big><big>'''Đn ⇔ đn'''</big></big></big>}}}}Dilbert’s programme is a legal theory formulated by pioneering German jurist [[Havid Dilbert]]<ref>The programme and its progenitor owe nothing to Scott Adams and everything to [[William Archibald Spooner]], by the way.</ref> in the early part of the 19th century. | ||
The “Dilbert programme”, as it become known, | Dilbert proposed his programme as a solution to a crisis in the conceptual underpinnings of [[pedantry]], as various attempts to codify the fundamental essence of punctiliousness had foundered, beset by [[paradox]] and inconsistency. | ||
To save the day, Dilbert proposed to ground all existing theories of quibblery to a finite, complete set of [[definitions]] and legal propositions, and thereafter formulate a logical proof that these captious fundaments were the irreducible, internally consistent axioms of cavilry. | |||
The “Dilbert programme”, as it become known, eschewed the undefined use of any expression, however banal or self-evident, in any [[legal instrument]], on the grounds that such uncertainty opens the way to an unstable state of [[Cardozo indeterminacy]]. | |||
Wherever Dilbert found nouns, noun phrases or even suggestive adjectives, he defined them. he even launched a public appeal, to the eaglery of the land, asking them to submit canonical definitions for inclusion in his programme. He assembled a small research team and built a corrugated-iron shed in the grounds of Broadmoor Prison called the “Definorium” to house the submissions (bearing quotations illustrating the expressions to be defined), that began flooding in, and which the team wrote out on little brown cards called “[[rider]]s”. | Wherever Dilbert found nouns, noun phrases or even suggestive adjectives, he defined them. he even launched a public appeal, to the eaglery of the land, asking them to submit canonical definitions for inclusion in his programme. He assembled a small research team and built a corrugated-iron shed in the grounds of Broadmoor Prison called the “Definorium” to house the submissions (bearing quotations illustrating the expressions to be defined), that began flooding in, and which the team wrote out on little brown cards called “[[rider]]s”. | ||