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Are the days of legal {{tag|contract}}s as discrete [[Ontology|ontological]] things, abstracted and divorced from our bio- and eco-mechanical beings, numbered?
{{a|technology|}}Are the days of legal {{tag|contract}}s as discrete [[Ontology|ontological]] things, abstracted and divorced from our bio- and eco-mechanical beings, numbered?


Not really, in this contrarian’s view. If they were, they would have gone by now.
Not really, in this contrarian’s view. If they were, they would have gone by now.
Code is law is a variation of the Boolean view of language that it is an exercise in symbol processing in which meaning and data are identical, in contradiction to the idea that meaning is a “[[betweenness]]” thing


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Are the days of legal contracts as discrete ontological things, abstracted and divorced from our bio- and eco-mechanical beings, numbered?

Not really, in this contrarian’s view. If they were, they would have gone by now.

Code is law is a variation of the Boolean view of language that it is an exercise in symbol processing in which meaning and data are identical, in contradiction to the idea that meaning is a “betweenness” thing

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