On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 8 May 2008 11:43:32 Ian Kelly wrote: >> I could make the agreement. I could make the agreement a contest. >> Therefore the contest is a possible agreement I could make. What's so >> complicated about that? > > It's not possible for you to do so truly unilaterally. In a certain > sense, yes, no one else needs to act. But making a contract into a > contest needs the cooperation by silence of all but two of the > players. Without their consenting inaction, no contest can be created.
I can also go to the bank and deposit my cash, provided I have the cooperation of the muggers not to intercept me en route. By this argument then, depositing cash at the bank would analogously not be "a possible action I could take". -root
