Professor O'Spades opines on The Majesty of the Law:
So, yeah, she's lying. Or else she's so stupid she doesn't even realize
she's making a choice about judicial philosophy at all -- like man of
the stupid and liberal (BIRM) she is entirely unaware that there is any
other philosophy than the one she believes in, to the point where she
denies it's a philosophy or choice at all and believes it to be simply
the natural and inevitable order of things.*
Which is intriguing enough on its own for diagnostic purposes, but becomes even more fascinating once one sees where the asterisk attaches:
See Peart, Neil, et al., "Freewill."
Flaubert would I think have omitted the footnote, but that is art. Science compels us to, uh, scrupulous meanness.