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===What if it is not enough?===
===What if it is not enough?===
The sky might, yet, fall in on your head. What if the ''very act of disclaiming liability'' invokes some new, un-thought of, liability? Could your [[magic incantation]] inadvertently summon from across the Styx some new demonic imp to ply your client with liability?
The sky might, yet, fall in on your head. What if the ''very act of disclaiming liability'' invokes some new, un-thought of, liability? Could your [[magic incantation]] inadvertently summon from across the Styx some new demonic imp to haunt your dreams and ply your client with indeterminate [[liability]]?


The epistemologists among you will know this is impossible to rule out in theory, however absurd it might seem in practice: ''[[nego, ergo advocatum sum]]'', as [[Descartes]] memorably put it. But you can always try, by adding to the bottom of your disclaimer a ''[[disclaimer]]'':
The epistemologists among you will know this is impossible to rule out in theory, however absurd it might seem in practice: ''[[nego, ergo advocatum sum]]'', as [[Descartes]] memorably put it. But you can always try, by adding to the bottom of your disclaimer a ''[[disclaimer]]'':