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As its name suggests, is the inverse of a [[carve-out|carve-''out'']]. | As its name suggests, is the inverse of a [[carve-out|carve-''out'']]. | ||
But not the ''opposite'', exactly — that’s an [[incluso]]: [[tedious]], sure, but undoubtedly part of the [[normal science]] of legal practice, beaten into every student of the law at the very first opportunity. | But not the ''opposite'', exactly — that’s an [[incluso]]: [[tedious]], sure, but undoubtedly part of the [[normal science]] of legal practice, beaten into every student of the law at the very first opportunity. A carve-''in'' is an exception to a more general [[carve out]], itself of a yet more general [[incluso|inclusion]]. Of a broad class of those things that would be ''in''cluded were they not ''ex''cluded, it is an exclusion. So, a de-exclusion. | ||
Careful though: a carve-in is not a re-inclusion, exactly, for that | Careful though: a carve-in is not a re-inclusion, exactly, for that might imply a momentary exclusion, and for all kinds of [[ontological]] reasons — who knows? It might set a [[voidable preference]] running, or some similar catastrophe — that would not do. | ||
A [[carve-in]] is thus something more special, and ephemeral: to a Henry Moore, it is the hole: to an astronomer, dark matter; to a spiritualist, the kind of phantom that invents itself whole-cloth out of the immaterial fabric of the dark. It is Lazarus: when all seemed lost, joyously resurrected. A loved one that we feared had been taken away too soon, but who miraculously returns, unbound, to the bosom of the family, and wonders what all the fuss was about. | A [[carve-in]] is thus something more special, and ephemeral: to a Henry Moore, it is the hole: to an astronomer, dark matter; to a spiritualist, the kind of phantom that invents itself whole-cloth out of the immaterial fabric of the dark. It is Lazarus: when all seemed lost, joyously resurrected. A loved one that we feared had been taken away too soon, but who miraculously returns, unbound, to the bosom of the family, and wonders what all the fuss was about. | ||