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A counterfactual proposition which ought to be put in service more often than it is in defence of simple language and | A counterfactual proposition which ought to be put in service more often than it is, in defence of simple language and resistance of [[flannel]]. | ||
Legal | [[Legal eagle]]s are nothing if not creative, though the forensic imagination bounds towards the paranoid, away from practical common sense at every opportunity. Every legal negotiator will find herself engaged in a fruitless argument about some hypothetical catastrophe ''which'' might arise if if a counterpart should willfully misconstrue the plain but general language of a contract. The difficulty of resisting this sort of passive-aggressive logic is articulated in the [[anal paradox]] | ||
By way of example from a [[confidentiality agreement]]: one might expect the following pedantic addition to a simple definition: ''“'''Confidential information'''” means all information relating to to a party {{insert|or otherwise relating to that party’ or its affairs}}...'' | By way of example from a [[confidentiality agreement]]: one might expect the following pedantic addition to a simple definition: ''“'''Confidential information'''” means all information relating to to a party {{insert|or otherwise relating to that party’ or its affairs}}...'' |