On 5/8/08, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Contest-ness is tracked by Agorans within Agoran records, and is not > "part of" the contract. Is the fact that you are supine, leaning, > standing, etc. an intrinsic part of yourself? Or is it an external > label applied by Agoran rules?
It seems to me that root's argument is broken only because 1742 allows players to create contracts generally, much the same way as equity judges can impose them. If contesthood is an intrinsic property of a contract, and ais was allowed to assign it as a judgement, then I could go ahead and make a pledge for which is_contest = 1. Although I could not then change is_contest because it is not a defined Contract Change, I would have as much right to specify it in the first place as to speicfy the text of the contract. Which, by custom, is not the case, so the judgement of an equity case cannot be a contest. Rather, the contest rule just 'blesses' a contract's properties in order to make it a Contest. P.S. I don't think the same thing applies for switches. If the set of possible players was the set of valid judgements for a case, it seems to me that I would be required to state the value of each switch assigned to my player-judgement.
