On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: >>> Rule 2148/2 reads, in part, "A foreign nomic may grant certain powers >>> and privileges to Agora's ambassador." "Power" is defined by R1688/4 >>> to be a non-negative rational number which, if positive, makes its >> >> I'm not recording this as a win unless it's shown that "certain powers" >> in the generic sense that a foreign nomic might grant them is the same >> as power in the specific. I don't think it is. I also think that even >> if they were the same, R2148 does not raise the foreign nomic (as an >> instrument) to any power above zero, which would be a necessary first >> step to allow the foreign nomic to grant the ambassador a power above >> zero (R2140). > > It may be that R2148 itself causes the Ambassador's power to become non-zero.
I think you know that's a stretch ;). R2148 says that a foreign nomic may grant powers to the Ambassador. Anyway you slice it, it says the foreign nomic (as the instrument) may grant powers to the Ambassador. This means the foreign nomic is the instrument. There's nothing there to raise the power of the foreign nomic. Quite clearly, by R2140, the foreign nomic (power 0) cannot cause the ambassador to have a power greater than its own. This isn't inconsistent, it just means the foreign nomic with a power of 0 can grant a power up to 0 to the ambassador. This is a bit similar in principle to the final judgement of CFJ1499. -Goethe
