On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 1:14 AM Sarah Strange via agora-discussion <
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> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 7:58 PM Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion <
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> > > On Jan 28, 2021, at 12:55 AM, Gaelan Steele via agora-discussion <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
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> > >> On Jan 27, 2021, at 11:07 PM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion <
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> > >>> Unless I’m missing something, this repeals the definition of
> > instruments and adds a new one.
> > >>
> > >> That's intentional, yes. Instruments would fill the hole that statutes
> > do now.
> > >
> > > Bah, I meant to say that it *fails* to add a new one.
> > >
> > > Gaelan
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> > Aha, it's in 1688/10, which the proposal applies S->I to:
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> > "A statute [which would be replaced with instrument] is a document with
> > positive Power."
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> > Gaelan
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>   You can't have negative power or 0 power by the definition of power, can
> you?



Something can have a power of 0, but not negative. Nearly everything has a
power of 0, including both me and you.

-Aris

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