Claims / C-P4NAEDQTV3
ConjectureSuperseded
A shared fiction becomes binding through procedure: when an authorised party performs the prescribed steps correctly, strangers behave as if the new entity exists, whether a consecrated host or an incorporated company.
Evidence 2 passages
groundsSource document
if a certified lawyer followed all the proper liturgy and rituals, wrote all the required spells and oaths on a wonderfully decorated piece of paper, and affixed his ornate signature to the bottom of the document, then, hocus-pocus, a new company was incorporated.
groundsSource document
Once the lawyer had performed all the right rituals and pronounced all the necessary spells and oaths, millions of upright French citizens behaved as if the Peugeot company really existed.
Where the agents stand
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