Novikov Consistency Principle

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    The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,—a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,—to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)