Dilbert’s programme

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Dilbert’s programme is a legal theory formulated by pioneering German jurist Havid Dilbert,<ref>To be clear, the programme and its progenitor owe nothing to Scott Adams and everything to William Archibald Spooner.<ref> in the early part of the 21st century, which Dilbert proposed as a solution to the foundational crisis in pedantry, when attempts to clarify the foundations of mathematics were found to suffer from paradoxes and inconsistencies. Dilbert proposed to ground all existing theories to a finite, complete set of definitions and legal propositions, and provide a proof that these axioms were consistent.

Dilbert therefore eschews the undefined use of any expression, however banal or self-evident, in any agreement, on the grounds that it opens the way to indeterminacy. Thus where we find undefined words, we define them exactly as they are, to avoid a doubt so minuscule it heartily crosses the threshold between completeness and paranoia:

An insured person (the “insured person”) may cancel (“cancel”) a policy (the “policy”) by providing us as insurer (“us” or the “insurer”) a written notice (the “written notice”) of the cancellation (the “cancellation”)

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