On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: > Accordingly, I find that the definition of the word "rule" in the > Fight Arena contract is that provided by Rule 2141. By the arguments > provided by the caller, I therefore (proto)-judge this CFJ to be TRUE.
You're absolutely right about my "modifier" argument, but I disagree with your first part ... whether any reasonable person would mistake the secret rule for an agoran rule from the ruleset, or whether context is sufficient to know that a common english should be applied within the contract. e.g., if no reasonable person would mistake the secret rule for (R2141) "a type of instrument with the capacity to govern the game generally" then it is just not that sort of rule. Otherwise, we'd have to start watching the use of all common words once they happen to be in the ruleset as well (I remember, when Orders (as in commands) were such a pain, I consciously used phrases "in the following sequence" instead of "in the following order" ... a pain). -Goethe
