1. One might note the additional complication of different methods of counting floors, such that what would be considered the 12th floor in certain European countries would be considered the 13th in the United States.
2. Felix Cohen, ‘Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach' (1935) 35Columbia Law Review809.
3. This is not to claim that this sort of thing only happens in law; what happens among legal professionals is almost certainly merely an example of a more general, perhaps universal, phenomenon.
4. Ludwig Wittgenstein,The Blue and Brown Books(Harper Torchbooks, 1960) 1.
5. Cohen (n 2) 821.