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A History of Language Insufficiency
In this personal reflection, the author introduces the Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, a concept suggesting that human communication often fails because our words cannot support the heavy social and legal burdens we place upon them. Drawing from a lifelong perspective as an outsider, the writer challenges the validity of subjective legal terms like fairness and reasonableness, arguing that these "weasel words" mask deep-seated ontological disagreements. The text posits that people frequently operate under a false illusion of agreement because their individual interpretations of a single…
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