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===What if it is not enough?===
===What if it is not enough?===
The sky might, yet, [[Chicken Licken|fall in on your head]]. What if the ''very act of disclaiming'' of itself invokes some new, un-thought of, liability<ref>I’m messing with you now, I know.</ref>? Could clever words inadvertently summon from across the Styx some new demonic imp to haunt your dreams and ply your client with indeterminate liability?
The sky might, yet, [[Chicken Licken|fall in on your head]]. What if the ''very act of disclaiming'' of itself invokes some new, un-thought of, liability<ref>I’m messing with you now, I know.</ref>? Could clever words inadvertently summon from across the Styx some new demonic imp to haunt your dreams and ply your client with [[indeterminate liability]]?


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