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[[File:Havid Dilbert.png|thumb|center|Havid Dilbert in 1897]] | [[File:Havid Dilbert.png|thumb|center|Havid Dilbert in 1897]] | ||
{{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. | {{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 his programme as a solution to a crisis in the conceptual underpinnings of [[pedantry]], as various attempts to codify the fundamental essence of punctiliousness had foundered, beset by [[paradox]] and inconsistency. | Herr Dilbert proposed his programme as a solution to a crisis in the conceptual underpinnings of [[pedantry]], as various attempts to codify the fundamental essence of punctiliousness had foundered, beset by [[paradox]] and inconsistency. | ||
To save the day, Dilbert proposed to ground all existing theories of quibblery to a finite, complete set of [[definitions]] and legal propositions, and thereafter formulate a logical proof that these captious fundaments were the irreducible, internally consistent axioms of cavilry. | To save the day, Dilbert proposed to ground all existing theories of quibblery to a finite, complete set of [[definitions]] and legal propositions, and thereafter formulate a logical proof that these captious fundaments were the irreducible, internally consistent axioms of cavilry. | ||