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{{def|Carve-in|/kɑːv ɪn/|n|[[File:Carve-out.png|450|center|A [[carve-out]] in a stable orbit with a [[carve-in]], yesterday]]}} | {{def|Carve-in|/kɑːv ɪn/|n|[[File:Carve-out.png|450|center|A [[carve-out]] in a stable orbit with a [[carve-in]], yesterday]]}} | ||
As its name suggests, is the inverse of a [[carve-out|carve-''out'']]. | As its name suggests, a [[carve-in]] is the inverse of a [[carve-out|carve-''out'']]. | ||
But not the ''opposite'', exactly — that’s an [[incluso]]: [[tedious]], sure, but undoubtedly part of the [[normal science]] of legal practice, beaten into every student of the law at the very first opportunity. A carve-''in'' is an exception to a more general [[carve out]], itself of a yet more general [[incluso|inclusion]]. Of a broad class of those things that would be ''in''cluded were they not ''ex''cluded, it is an | But not the ''opposite'', exactly — that’s an [[incluso]]: [[tedious]], sure, but undoubtedly part of the [[normal science]] of legal practice, beaten into every student of the law at the very first opportunity. A carve-''in'' is a rarer bird: an exception to a more general [[carve out]], itself a limitation of a yet more general [[incluso|inclusion]]. Of a broad class of those things that would be ''in''cluded were they not ''ex''cluded, it is an ''ex''clusion. So, a de-exclusion, of sorts. | ||
Careful though: a carve-in is not a | Careful though: a carve-in is not a “re-inclusion” exactly, for that might imply a momentary exclusion, and for all kinds of [[ontological]] reasons — who knows? It might set a [[voidable preference]] running, or some similar catastrophe — that would not do. | ||
A [[carve-in]] is thus something more special, and ephemeral: to a Henry Moore, it is the hole: to an astronomer, dark matter; to a spiritualist, the kind of phantom that invents itself whole-cloth out of the immaterial fabric of the dark. It is Lazarus: when all seemed lost, joyously resurrected. A loved one that we feared had been taken away too soon, but who miraculously returns, unbound, to the bosom of the family, and wonders what all the fuss was about. | A [[carve-in]] is thus something more special, and ephemeral: to a Henry Moore, it is the hole: to an astronomer, dark matter; to a spiritualist, the kind of phantom that invents itself whole-cloth out of the immaterial fabric of the dark. It is Lazarus: when all seemed lost, joyously resurrected. A loved one that we feared had been taken away too soon, but who miraculously returns, unbound, to the bosom of the family, and wonders what all the fuss was about. | ||
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Think about it: a [[carval chain]] looks the same at any scale. | Think about it: a [[carval chain]] looks the same at any scale. | ||
This piques our curiosity at first — what kind of wonderful magic is this! — but then occurs a thought so dreadful that, once it has flashed across the Cartesian theatre of a young [[Legal eagle|eagle]]’s mind it can never again be banished. It will keep you up at night, my friends. For if you can travel down a [[carval chain]] without fear of finding its end and, at every remove it looks the same, then how will you ever find your way back to the top layer, the most general categorisation, whence you started? | This piques our curiosity at first — what kind of wonderful magic is this! — but then occurs a thought so dreadful that, once it has flashed across the [[Cartesian]] theatre of a young [[Legal eagle|eagle]]’s mind it can never again be banished. It will keep you up at night, my friends. For if you can travel down a [[carval chain]] without fear of finding its end and, at every remove it looks the same, then how will you ever find your way back to the top layer, the most general categorisation, whence you started? | ||
''Is there'' a “top layer”? Do perhaps [[carve-in]]s and [[carve-out]]s extend, both forward and backward, infinitely? Are they even constrained by [[space-time]] as we know it? Might they curve into an alien geometry that our Euclidean eyes cannot fathom? | ''Is there'' a “top layer”? Do perhaps [[carve-in]]s and [[carve-out]]s extend, both forward and backward, infinitely? Are they even constrained by [[space-time]] as we know it? Might they curve into an alien geometry that our Euclidean eyes cannot fathom? | ||