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by District5524 544 days ago
I agree. Building on 200 Prolific answers and inventing names for their "own hypothesis" called "magic spell"? Odd. Lawyers have written like entire libraries on this subject, there are specialized journals examining the legal language used (e.g. in English: https://link.springer.com/journal/11196, https://www.languageandlaw.eu/jll, but there are probably separate journals for this in every language with 10M+ speakers, like https://joginyelv.hu/) I understand this is not about the lawyers' approach to the problem, even if the author has a law degree, but a "cognitive sciences" department trying their hands on a problem that is new for them. But it would have been helpful if they had at least attempted to provide a reference to some prior art in the legal field...