Legal thinking, like mathematical thinking, involves an exactification of concepts.

Prison authorities ask themselves “how likely are they (inmates) to try to escape and how dangerous are they likely to be to the public if they succeed,” [Dennis] Curtis said. Then “the dangerosity” of the inmate is matched to the security rating of the prison, he said.

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It was thus no accident, for example, that public discourse and pamphletry of the time from both sides of the independence conflict could appropriate single multivocal religious images for diametrically opposed ends.