On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Ben Caplan 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 I agree. The rest of the ruleset, taken as a whole, could still > qualify as nomic; the immutable rule would simply not be part of that nomic. > Consider the mailing lists that support Agora; even though Agora would not > run without them (well, it *could*, but *currently* we are depending on > them), no Agoran rule, ruling, or custom allows for them to be messed with > from within the game.
Yes, but those are (generally) the unwritten rules. An unamendable rule is a written one. -Goethe
