Language, and thus common meaning, is missing among states too
Language, and thus common meaning, is missing among states too
However, it is not only an individualisation mechanism for states that is sorely missing. Language, and thus common meaning, among them is missing too. Whatever common language there is today among states has been developed through international treaties in a technical and case-specific manner. Today international law is the only way for states to collaborate, that is, to speak a common language, to understand each other. For example, in order to agree that a ship is a ship (including their various categorisations) or that a book in one state is also a book in another (so as, for example, to protect books through regulation), a specific international legal treaty is needed each time. Evidently the same is true for every other aspect of human activity—hence the scarcity of international legal treaties and other instruments, because of the tremendous effort required each time to achieve common meaning among states.
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