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{{a|g|[[File: | {{a|g|[[File:eagle over grand canyon.jpg|450px|thumb|center|A [[legal eagle]] soars over the magnificent legacy of the River Pedantry, yesterday.]] | ||
}}To [[deem]] is the anti-[[Bob Cunis|Cunis]]; it is to treat one thing ''as'' the other. It enfolds all a [[legal eagle]]’s intents and every one of her purposes. | }}To [[deem]] is the anti-[[Bob Cunis|Cunis]]; it is to treat one thing ''as'' the other. It enfolds all a [[legal eagle]]’s intents and every one of her purposes. | ||
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For where to “[[amend]]” is to assert the ''identity'' — the continuing legal existence, even — of a unitary something that is in a way ''[[Change|changed]]'' over a period of time, to “[[deem]]” is to assert the momentary ''non''-identity of something that, in every legally material way, has not. It is to take Theseus’ ship to a whole other realm of [[Ontology|ontological]] [[redundancy]]. | For where to “[[amend]]” is to assert the ''identity'' — the continuing legal existence, even — of a unitary something that is in a way ''[[Change|changed]]'' over a period of time, to “[[deem]]” is to assert the momentary ''non''-identity of something that, in every legally material way, has not. It is to take Theseus’ ship to a whole other realm of [[Ontology|ontological]] [[redundancy]]. | ||
Why do we [[legal eagles]] talk in such convoluted ways? Because it was ever so. So much water has passed before us that it has | Why do we [[legal eagles]] talk in such convoluted ways? Because it was ever so. So much water has passed before us that it has become not how we ''speak'' but how we ''think''. These are our gods and monsters. This is the fabric from which our legal world is woven. This essential [[Subjunctive|subjunctivity]]; this fixation with a [[hypothetical]] state of being one ''would be in'' were it not for the inconvenient state one actually ''is in'', is foundational to the [[legal eagle]]’s torturous psyche. | ||
The [[noun]] form of deem; the act of ''deeming'' something, is “demption”. | The [[noun]] form of deem; the act of ''deeming'' something, is “demption”. | ||
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*[[Bob Cunis]] | *[[Bob Cunis]] | ||
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