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And then you'd need to describe the specification language and how would that be verified?

I suppose that English is imperfect and could use improvements. Ideally those two would converge. That would solve problems about the interpretation of laws, as well. How would that convergence work? To answer that you'd have to know how language is acquired in the first place. I suppose some form of self-reference in the language that mirrors some of Chomskie's stipulated universal grammar, if it exists.




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