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- Chisholm's Third Law
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- Proposals, as understood by the proposer,
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- will be judged otherwise by others.
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- Corollary 1: If you explain so clearly that nobody can
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- misunderstand, somebody will.
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- Corollary 2: If you do something which you are sure will meet
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- with everyone's approval, somebody won't like it.
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- Corollary 3: Procedures devised to implement the purpose
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- won't quite work.
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- Corollary 4: No matter how long or how many times you explain,
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- no one is listening.
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