On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 8 May 2008 4:26:23 Ian Kelly wrote: >> I can also go to the bank and deposit my cash, provided I have the >> cooperation of the muggers not to intercept me en route. By this >> argument then, depositing cash at the bank would analogously not be "a >> possible action I could take". > > It's misleading to bring real-world mechanics into it. Running with > the analogy, however, the muggers CAN and MUST NOT intercept you. You > thus CANNOT deposit your cash without their implicit consent. > > Compare this to how strongly parties CAN agree to a contract, which is > fundamentally uninterceptible within Agoran mechanics. Any would-be > muggers would have to interfere somehow with the parties' email or > other mechanics external to Agora.
"CAN" and "could" are not synonymous. If the phrase used by R2169 is intended to mean "...the possible agreements that the parties CAN make...", then it should say that. Currently, it does not. -root
