Loophole
Loophole noun - An ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation.
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Loophole Abuse: In "Science Fair and Foul", Buckwheat makes the other boys promise not to peek at his science fair project before the fair is held.
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The Open-Source Wish Project tries to find perfect, loophole-less wordings for wishes to avert this trope.
Source: Be Careful What You Wish For - This is also the work where Asimov introduced the "autonomous spaceship that doesn't know about manned spaceships" loophole in the Three Laws mentioned above, as a project the mastermind of the murder was working on.
Source: Three-Laws Compliant
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