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 ===The logical structure of legal documents===
-This leads us on to [[Semantic code project|one of our pet interests]]: why are legal documents so convoluted, and what can one do to correct it. For this we need to delve into the underlying logical structure of a contract.
-Any legal statement, however [[Fish Principle|Fish]]ily articulated, boils down to a basic logical proposition, rather like software code, with propositions, conditions, logic gates, if/then statements, and so on, only we call them definitions, obligations, rights, discretions, options and so on.
-Any logic gate — in legal language, an alternative, choice or option, increases the inherent complicatedness of a proposition.
-Take the alternative statements about cricket and rugby balls. The variables at play are:
-*round or oval ball
-*red or white ball
-*rugby or cricket
-*test or one-day cricket
-*rugby union or rugby league
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+This leads us on to [[Semantic code project|one of our pet interests]]: why are legal documents so convoluted, and what can we do to correct it? For this we need to delve into the underlying logical structure of a contract.
+Any legal statement, however [[Fish Principle|Fish]]ily articulated, boils down to a basic logical proposition, rather like software code, with propositions, conditions, logic gates, if/then statements, and so on, only we call them [[definitions]], [[obligation]]s, [[Rights cumulative|right]]s, [[discretion]]s, [[option]]s and so on.
+Any “logic gate” that splits a proposition into alternatives increases the inherent complicatedness of a proposition.
+Take the alternative statements about cricket and rugby balls in the panel at right. The variables at play are:
+*round or oval ball
+*red or white ball
+*rugby or cricket
+*test or one-day cricket
+*rugby union or rugby league
+There are ten variables here, but how you structure them can great more or less complicatedness.
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