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{{image|Biggs hoson|png|A Biggs hoson passing the threshold of juridical credibility, yesterday.}} | |||
}}The [[Biggs constant]] (also known as the “[[Biggs threshold]]”, the “[[Biggs minimum]]”, and the “[[Biggs point]]”, after British financial naturalist [[J. M. F. Biggs|John Meriwether Fortescue “Jack” Biggs]]) is the point at which incremental [[legal mark-up]] can not make ''less'' of a difference to the juridical content of a passage without making ''none at all''. | }}The [[Biggs constant]] (also known as the “[[Biggs threshold]]”, the “[[Biggs minimum]]”, the “[[Biggs particle]]” and the “[[Biggs point]]”, after British financial naturalist [[J. M. F. Biggs|John Meriwether Fortescue “Jack” Biggs]]) is the point at which incremental [[legal mark-up]] can not make ''less'' of a difference to the juridical content of a passage without making ''none at all''. | ||
It is the moment ''just before'' one’s last guttering flicker of plausible contribution to the forward momentum of a [[transaction]] is snuffed into a curlicue of waxen smoke; the instant before the tiny pale blue dot of one’s personal justification for even bothering to show up is finally, utterly, subsumed into the awesome grandeur of the [[negotiation]]al cosmos. | It is the moment ''just before'' one’s last guttering flicker of plausible contribution to the forward momentum of a [[transaction]] is snuffed into a curlicue of waxen smoke; the instant before the tiny pale blue dot of one’s personal justification for even bothering to show up is finally, utterly, subsumed into the awesome grandeur of the [[negotiation]]al cosmos. | ||
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===[[Biggs hoson]]=== | ===[[Biggs hoson]]=== | ||
Since 1997, any [[legal mark-up]] that reaches the [[Biggs threshold]] exactly, but does not exceed it for meaningfulness — the smallest possible size for a forensically significant jurisprudential particle — has been known as a “[[Biggs hoson]]”. Being highly unstable, the hoson is rarely seen outside laboratory conditions and will quickly decay into levity, giving off copious quantities of [[Entropy|entropic]] gas in the process. | Since 1997, any [[legal mark-up]] that reaches the [[Biggs threshold]] exactly, but does not exceed it for meaningfulness — the smallest possible size for a forensically significant jurisprudential particle — has been known as a “[[Biggs hoson]]”. Being highly unstable, the hoson is rarely seen outside laboratory conditions and will quickly decay into levity, giving off copious quantities of [[Entropy|entropic]] gas in the process. | ||
===The self-referential [[definition]] as an example of a Biggs hoson=== | |||
A “[[Dilbert definition]]”, in which ''referential expression == referent'', is a frequently claimed example of a relatively stable [[Biggs hoson]], though its status as such is hotly contested at certain sorts of dinner table. | |||
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*The [[Fish principle]] | *The [[Fish principle]] | ||
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