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 Beyond dispensing with the concern that there might be writing on it that you just can’t see, what could this mean?
-Does it distinguish a ''wantonly'' blank page from one whose lack of content came about from a feebler conviction (recklessness<ref>in that the author apprehended the risk the page would be bare and took it anyway.</ref>, for example, or negligence<ref>In that a reasonable person in the author’s position would have realised there was a risk the page would be blank</ref> in omitting to put anything on a page)? Could the redundant page have been overlooked through no cognitive operation, actual or constructive, on the author’s part at all?
+Does it distinguish a ''wantonly'' blank page from one whose lack of content came about from a feebler conviction (recklessness<ref>in that the author apprehended the risk the page would be bare and took it anyway.</ref>, for example, or negligence<ref>In that a reasonable person in the author’s position would have realised there was a risk the page would be blank</ref>)? Could the redundant page have been overlooked through no cognitive operation, actual or constructive, on the author’s part at all?
-Agonising over the writer’s [[mens rea]] obscures the real question: WHO CARES? What difference does it make why the page is blank? It ''is'' blank: that is a brute existential fact<ref>Or would be, had you not written that very thing on the page to contradict yourself. See below.</ref>.
+Agonising over the writer’s [[mens rea]] obscures a better question: WHO CARES? What difference does it make ''why'' the page is blank? It ''is'' blank: that is a brute existential fact<ref>Or would be, had you not written that very thing on the page to contradict yourself. See below.</ref>.
 A [[mediocre lawyer|diligent student]] pipes up from the back: “But, why, can’t you see? A blank page is an omission. It is a ''failure'' to say something. A fellow can infringe her neighbour’s rights by omission just as well as she can by action.”