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Ok, no - I’m started. Of all the pointless things a [[legal eagle]] can commit to a page - and [[I]] hope anyone reading these pages will be persuaded there are many - none is quite so ill-conceived as [[This page is intentionally left blank]].
Ok, no - I’m started. Of all the pointless things a [[legal eagle]] can commit to a page - and [[I]] hope anyone reading these pages will be persuaded there are many - none is quite so ill-conceived as [[This page is intentionally left blank]].


I suppose it is meant to differentiate a wantonly blank page from one whose emptiness is a product of a weakee mental conviction on the author's part (he may have been reckless<ref>in that the author apprehended the risk the page world be bare and took it anyway<\ref>, negligent<ref><\ref> those pages in a document which have been accidentally left blank on one hand, those which just happen to be blank, but have got that way through no willful machination of the author, and those blank pages about which the author has no opinion at all.
I suppose it is meant to differentiate a wantonly blank page from one whose emptiness is a product of a weakee mental conviction on the author's part (he may have been reckless<ref>in that the author apprehended the risk the page world be bare and took it anyway.</ref>or negligent<ref>in that a reasonable person in the author's position would have realised there was a risk the page would be blank</ref>as to its emptiness) and those blank pages which got that way through no cognitive machinations (actual or constructive) on the author's part, about which the author has no opinion at all.


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Don't get me started.

Ok, no - I’m started. Of all the pointless things a legal eagle can commit to a page - and I hope anyone reading these pages will be persuaded there are many - none is quite so ill-conceived as This page is intentionally left blank.

I suppose it is meant to differentiate a wantonly blank page from one whose emptiness is a product of a weakee mental conviction on the author's part (he may have been reckless[1]or negligent[2]as to its emptiness) and those blank pages which got that way through no cognitive machinations (actual or constructive) on the author's part, about which the author has no opinion at all.

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  1. in that the author apprehended the risk the page world be bare and took it anyway.
  2. in that a reasonable person in the author's position would have realised there was a risk the page would be blank