On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Alex Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I call for judgement on the statement "Rule 2211 is a proposal." > > Arguments: the precedent of the famous CFJ 1656 implies that rule 2211 > is a proposal (it states that anything matching the definition of the > first paragraph of rule 106 is a proposal, and rule 2211 is "making > other explicit changes to the gamestate" by platonically flipping castes > to Alpha every month). I'm wondering if that precedent ought to be > overturned; for one thing, it implies that proposals are trivially > capable of being amended, otherwise rule 2211 couldn't be amended, and > yet it has been in the past.
The Word of the Day is "lacquer". Therefore, by changing the Word of the Day, one changes the word "lacquer". The Word of the Day changes every day. Therefore, the word "lacquer" changes every day. This is obviously wrong. One interpretation: "Rule 2211" is a set of texts. "Rule 2211 says X" means that members of the set "Rule 2211" say X. However, "Rule 2211 is amended" means that the set "Rule 2211" changes to contain different members. If "Rule 2211 is a proposal", then members of the set "Rule 2211" are members of the set "a proposal"; however, changing the membership of the set "Rule 2211" doesn't affect any proposals, other than to change whether or not they are rules. This only sounds silly because we don't actually think of it that way. --Warrigal
