On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Zefram wrote: > comex wrote: >> Nevertheless, a standard Nomic game that made one rule completely >> unamendable still deserves to be called a nomic. > > I'm not sure that it does. I think that's violating the fundamental > concept of nomic. I think that the existence of entirely unamendable > rules is a good criterion to distinguish between nomics and non-nomic > rule systems.
Why? If we passed a Power-4 Rule "This rule can't be changed or repealed, and the creation of any system which can overrule this Rule is annulled before taking effect" and we otherwise carried on as normal, we're still as much of a nomic as we ever were. -Goethe
