Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Arbitor] CFJ 3853 Assigned to nch

[Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion]

On 6/19/2020 5:49 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 5:35 PM nch via agora-discussion <
> agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/19/20 7:26 PM, Kerim Aydin via agora-official wrote:
>>> The below CFJ is 3853.  I assign it to nch.
>>>
>>> status:https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/#3853
>>>
>>> ===============================  CFJ 3853
>> ===============================
>>>
>>>        Within the past week, Jason committed the crime of Uncertain
>>>        Certification.
>>>
>>>
>> ==========================================================================
>>
>> As someone who strongly opposed the relevant rule, specifically because
>> of its ambiguity, I feel like I've been Cassandra'd.
>>
> 
> 
> Gratuitous:
> 
> Plausibly is the opposite of manifestly. If you ask whether something is
> manifestly X, then if you're not sure the thing is X, the answer is no.
> When you ask whether something is plausibly X, if you're not sure if it's
> X, the answer is yes. So if you're sure it isn't related to Rulekeepor this
> is TRUE, otherwise it is FALSE. This part of the rule was deliberately
> written in such a way as to minimize the ambiguity that would otherwise
> result.

Something of a counter:

"Plausible:  reasonable or probable".  That doesn't sound to me like
"ambiguity = yes" it sounds to me like preponderance of the logic/reason,
and reasonableness can take into account things like good of the game and
so forth.  (By your definition, it's plausible that the Arbitor can do
this with any bug, because someone might call a cfj about it.  But that
doesn't seem "reasonable" so seems against the actual dictionary
definition of the term).