As a side note, I plan on finalizing my judgement on 1862 for tomorrow, and
I'll look at fixing up the Rumble contract sometime during midterms this
week,
Portion of Rule 2159/1 (Power=2)
Protective Decrees
All players are prohibited from falsely claiming, to any nomic,
that a document is a protective decree.
Peter Suber's Definition of a Nomic
Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect
it differs from almost every other game. The primary activity of Nomic
is proposing changes in the rules, debating the wisdom of changing
them in that way, voting on the changes, deciding what can and cannot
be done afterwards, and doing it. Even this core of the game, of
course, can be changed.
dictionary.com's Relevant Definitions of a Game
3. a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part
of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for
their own amusement or for that of spectators.
4. a single occasion of such an activity, or a definite portion of one: the
final game of the season; a rubber of three games at bridge.
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The statement here boils down to "Is Steve Wallace a Nomic?" since if Steve
Wallace is a Nomic, the statement is true, where as if Steve Wallace isn't a
Nomic, the answer is false.
H. BobTHJ used Peter Suber's Definition of a Nomic to try to determine
whether or not Steve Wallace was a Nomic by attempting to determine whether
or not Steve Wallace had rules which could be changed. This is nice, but not
the right way. The Peter Suber's Definition of a Nomic not only mentions
that changing the rules is a move, but also that it is a game. This is the
way in which the definition needs to be attacked.
Looking at dictionary.com's definition of a game, we see that Steve Wallace
fits into neither of the two definitions. The first definition would imply
that Steve Wallace is a competitive activity. I don't know about most
people, but I don't make "Steve Wallacing" one of my normal activities, nor
do I compete in "Steve Wallacing." A person can participate in an activity,
create an activity, run an acivity, promote an activity, be a prize for the
activity, or any number of verbs ther, but a person cannot be an activity,
nor a singular occasion of such an activity.
Since Steve Wallace is not a game, he cannot be a nomic either. Since he is
a nomic, proclaiming falsely that something is a protective decree to him is
not a violation of Rule 2159, therefore I judge FALSE.
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