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{{a|myth|}}Dilbert’s programme is a legal theory formulated by pioneering German jurist [[Havid Dilbert]]<ref>The programme and its progenitor owe nothing to Scott Adams and everything to [[William Archibald Spooner]], by the way.</ref> in the early part of the 19th century. Dilbert proposed it as a solution to an emerging foundational crisis in [[pedantry]], as various attempts to codify the fundamental essence of punctiliousness had foundered, beset by [[paradox]] and inconsistency. Dilbert proposed to ground all existing theories of quibblery to a finite, complete set of [[definitions]] and legal propositions, and provide a proof that these fundaments of captiousness were consistent.
{{a|myth|<br>{{subtable|<big><big><big>'''Đn ⇔ đn'''</big></big></big>}}}}Dilbert’s programme is a legal theory formulated by pioneering German jurist [[Havid Dilbert]]<ref>The programme and its progenitor owe nothing to Scott Adams and everything to [[William Archibald Spooner]], by the way.</ref> in the early part of the 19th century. Dilbert proposed it as a solution to an emerging foundational crisis in [[pedantry]], as various attempts to codify the fundamental essence of punctiliousness had foundered, beset by [[paradox]] and inconsistency. Dilbert proposed to ground all existing theories of quibblery to a finite, complete set of [[definitions]] and legal propositions, and provide a proof that these fundaments of captiousness were consistent.


The “Dilbert programme”, as it become known, thus eschews the undefined use of any expression, however banal or self-evident, in any [[legal instrument]], on the grounds that such uncertainty opens the way to an unstable state of [[Cardozo indeterminacy]].  
The “Dilbert programme”, as it become known, thus eschews the undefined use of any expression, however banal or self-evident, in any [[legal instrument]], on the grounds that such uncertainty opens the way to an unstable state of [[Cardozo indeterminacy]].