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This puts us in a fine old pickle. If the only way we can be certain a page is blank is by writing on it, can we ever be sure of anything ever again? Have we hit a kind of Russell’s paradox<ref>Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R is itself not a member of itself, then it must contain itself. If it contains itself, then it cannot be a member of the set of all sets that are not members of themselves</ref> of the law? Is this some kind of legal quantum indeterminacy> What would [[Descartes]] think?<ref>[[“[[Scribo non, ergo non scribo]]”, most likely.</ref> Or [[Gödel]]? Can’t you just imagine [[Schrödinger]], sitting on his chair, stroking his cat?
This puts us in a fine old pickle. If the only way we can be certain a page is blank is by writing on it, can we ever be sure of anything ever again? Have we hit a kind of Russell’s paradox<ref>Let R be the set of all sets that are not members of themselves. If R is itself not a member of itself, then it must contain itself. If it contains itself, then it cannot be a member of the set of all sets that are not members of themselves</ref> of the law? Is this some kind of legal quantum indeterminacy> What would [[Descartes]] think?<ref>[[“[[Scribo non, ergo non scribo]]”, most likely.</ref> Or [[Gödel]]? Can’t you just imagine [[Schrödinger]], sitting on his chair, stroking his cat?
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