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Beyond dispensing with the concern that there might be writing on it that you just can’t see, what could this mean?
Beyond dispensing with the concern that there might be writing on it that you just can’t see, what could this mean?


Does it distinguish a ''wantonly'' blank page from one whose lack of content came about from a feebler conviction? (Recklessness<ref>in that the author apprehended the risk the page would be bare and took it anyway.</ref>, for example, or negligence<ref>In that a reasonable person in the author’s position would have realised there was a risk the page would be blank</ref> in omitting to put anything on a page? Could the redundant page have been overlooked through no cognitive operation, actual or constructive, on the author’s part at all?
Does it distinguish a ''wantonly'' blank page from one whose lack of content came about from a feebler conviction (recklessness<ref>in that the author apprehended the risk the page would be bare and took it anyway.</ref>, for example, or negligence<ref>In that a reasonable person in the author’s position would have realised there was a risk the page would be blank</ref> in omitting to put anything on a page)? Could the redundant page have been overlooked through no cognitive operation, actual or constructive, on the author’s part at all?


Agonising over the writer’s [[mens rea]] obscures the real question: WHO CARES? What difference does it make why the page is blank? It ''is'' blank: that is a brute existential fact<ref>Or would be, had you not written that very thing on the page to contradict yourself. See below.</ref>.  
Agonising over the writer’s [[mens rea]] obscures the real question: WHO CARES? What difference does it make why the page is blank? It ''is'' blank: that is a brute existential fact<ref>Or would be, had you not written that very thing on the page to contradict yourself. See below.</ref>.