The twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein said ‘philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language’. We’ve just experienced the most remarkably lucid example, possibly in the whole of modern history, of Wittgenstein’s axiom. And the linguistic sorcery, extraordinarily enough, happened in a courtroom in Australia where a judge stated, in Tickle v.
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