“…Through the 'unfolding of paradoxes' (Paradoxieentfaltung) social systems develop, and sense is made and remade. In the legal system, for instance, the law is considered as binding, but actually its continuous revision brings about the autopoiesis of the legal system, 'and no one is bothered by the fact that the legal is illegal and the illegal is legal' (see Luhmann, 2013b: 224, translation modified; see Moeller, 2015) While, for Luhmann, paradoxes are not necessarily bothersome but often socially productive catalysts of communication systems, they still point to a somewhat disconcerting feature of socially generated sense (Sinn): That which makes sense and is socially taken as highly significant -for instance legality and, by extension, the principle of justice -is exposed as being without a foundation in reason and thus as groundless or, in Luhmannian terms, as utterly contingent. (Justice, for him, is a mere 'formula of contingency' or Kontingenzformel.)…”