On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Alexander Smith wrote:
> A 'secret rule' is a 'rule', obviously. You did not define 'rule',
> therefore it cannot logically have any meaning other than the one it
> normally has in Agora; that is, a rule in the ruleset. The word 'rule'
> is used for this purpose throughout the ruleset. (That's what I'm
> contending, anyway.)
The noun phrase "modified X" (e.g. "secret rule") may not automatically be
a strict sub-instance of X ("rule") and all the rules governing X. In
the past, for example, we decided in the courts that a "limited executor"
was a distinct thing from an "executor" so that rules governing the latter
did not necessarily apply to the former. Context is important.
-Goethe
