Civilization is built through repeated application of constitutive rules in a system where they iterate upward indefinitely—X counts as Y, and Y counts as Z, and so on—creating increasingly complex institutional structures
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“it iterates upward indefinitely so watch i make noises through my mouth they count as sentences of english some of those utterances of sentences count as the making of promises some promises count as undertaking a legal contract”
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