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Don't get me started.

Ok, no - I’m started. Of all the pointless things a legal eagle can commit to a page - and I hope anyone reading these pages will be persuaded there are many - none is quite so ill-conceived as This page is intentionally left blank.

I suppose it is meant to differentiate a wantonly blank page from one whose emptiness is a product of a weakee mental conviction on the author's part (he may have been reckless[1]or negligent[2]as to its emptiness) and those blank pages which got that way through no cognitive machinations (actual or constructive) on the author's part, about which the author has no opinion at all.

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  1. in that the author apprehended the risk the page world be bare and took it anyway.
  2. in that a reasonable person in the author's position would have realised there was a risk the page would be blank