Riordan almost smiled. “You sound like another historian I know.” “Historian?” She stiffened. “I am an observer. I do not claim to convey a unified s… - Charles E. Gannon

The total lack of information is a kind of information in itself.

I do not disagree with you, Bannor Rulaine. But in my culture, when tradition is challenged by law, the law is often twisted, construed, and reconstrued until it can be made to conform with tradition. I believe your word for this is teleology: where a result is decided before the process debate or discovery is initiated.
O'Garran snorted. "Fancy word for saying, 'they're going to have it their way, no matter what.'

Weiner-Kutkh waved airily. “I seem to have been born lucky.”
“Said every cheater who’s ever lived,” Caine retorted.