On 10-12-19 11:17 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
Arguments: "an opinion" can be reasonably interpreted as "exactly one
opinion", leading to a straightforward judgement of TRUE.
It can't really. This interpretation is generally unsupported:
The Power of exactly one entity is a non-negative rational
number. Exactly one Instrument is an entity with positive Power.
No entity with power below the power of this rule can
(a) cause exactly one entity to have power greater than its own.
(b) adjust the power of exactly one instrument with power greater
than its own.
(c) modify any other substantive aspect of exactly one instrument
with power greater than its own. A "substantive" aspect of
an instrument is any aspect that affects the instrument's
operation.
This rule provides the only mechanism by which rules can be
created, modified, or destroyed, or by which exactly one entity
can become a rule or cease to be a rule.
The above notwithstanding, a person stating that e intends to
perform exactly one action in the future does not thereby violate
this rule, as such a statement is often a requirement to keep eir
options open.
Upon a win announcement that the Pariah has ever continuously
had 0 Rests for exactly one entire week whilst being the Pariah
for all of that time, then the Pariah satisfies the Winning
Condition of Cleanliness. Cleanup condition: The office of Pariah
becomes vacant and that player ceases to satisfy this Winning
Condition.
If some Rule requires that exactly one action be done prior to a
given time, and that given time falls during a Holiday, or within
the 72-hour period immediately following that Holiday, then that
action need not be done until 72 hours after that Holiday ends.
"an" is an existential qualifier. It makes no sense to interpret it as
anything else.
-scshunt
