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}}Abraham Maslow proposed a “hierarchy of human needs” in his famous 1943 paper ''A Theory of Human Motivation''.  
}}Abraham Maslow proposed a “hierarchy of human needs” in his famous 1943 paper ''A Theory of Human Motivation''.  


[[Legal eagle]]s have their own hierarchy of needs, as indeed do the legal confections they create. This wiki is devoted to them: you might subtitle it “''A Theory of [[legal eagle|Legal Eagle]] Motivation”. Somewhere near the other top of the eagle’s list — nest? — is the need for utter, nose-bleeding ''clarity'' in legal expression. To be sure, [[JC|wizened malcontents]] might advance the counter-hypothethesis that a little [[constructive]] [[doubt]] is no bad thing, but no-one really cares about them and, inevitably, the [[Will to entropy|will to certainty]] prevails.  
[[Legal eagle]]s have their own hierarchy of needs, as indeed do the legal confections they create. This wiki is devoted to them: you might subtitle it “''A Theory of [[legal eagle|Legal Eagle]] Motivation''”.  
 
Somewhere near the other top of the eagle’s list — nest? — is the need for utter, nose-bleeding ''clarity'' in legal expression. To be sure, [[JC|wizened malcontents]] might advance the counter-hypothethesis that a little [[constructive]] [[doubt]] is no bad thing, but no-one really cares about them and, inevitably, the [[Will to entropy|will to certainty]] prevails.  


It finds its apotheosis in the “[[inconsistency]]” clause which addresses what should happen where two intesecting [[contract]]s conflict.
It finds its apotheosis in the “[[inconsistency]]” clause which addresses what should happen where two intesecting [[contract]]s conflict.