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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. | ||
Dilbert’s programme eschewed the undefined use of ''any'' | Dilbert’s programme eschewed the undefined use of ''any'' legal expression, however banal or self-evident, in ''any'' [[legal instrument]], on the grounds that such uncertainty opens the way to an unstable state what we now know as [[Cardozo indeterminacy]]. | ||
Wherever Dilbert found | Wherever Dilbert found [[noun]]s, noun phrases or even suggestive [[adjective]]s, he defined them. In 1903 he launched a public appeal, to the [[Eagles of the law|eaglery]] of the land, asking them to submit canonical legal [[definition]]s for inclusion in his programme. The response was immediate and overwhelming. | ||
Dilbert assembled a small research team and constructed a corrugated iron shed in the grounds of Broadmoor Prison, which he called the “Glossarorium”, to house the submissions, bearing quotations illustrating expressions to be defined, that began flooding in, and bade his team write them out on little brown cards he called “[[rider]]s”. | Dilbert assembled a small research team and constructed a corrugated iron shed in the grounds of Broadmoor Prison, which he called the “Glossarorium”, to house the submissions, bearing quotations illustrating expressions to be defined, that began flooding in, and bade his team write them out on little brown cards he called “[[rider]]s”. | ||