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logic can't justify itself without circularity, analogous to the limits defined by gödel's incompleteness thms. philosophical daoism recognizes what preceeds and exceeds logical articulation as "the dao." the character 道 (dào) is most often combined with other characters to mean path or road, e.g., 人行道 means sidewalk. i'm inclined to guess vitalik coined the acronym DAO inspired by daoism, to emphasize the governance as a path; something that's bottum-up, emergent, and permeating rather than imposed
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