On Wed, 8 Sep 2010, Sean Hunt wrote: > On 09/08/2010 12:07 AM, omd wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Warrigal<ihope12...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The asset defined is not "white ribbon"; it is "ribbon". Every ribbon > > > then has a color. A white ribbon is a ribbon whose color is white; > > > even though the rules stop using the term "white ribbon", white does > > > not cease to be a color. (Likewise, a rule can have power 3 even > > > though the rules never define 3 as a valid non-negative rational > > > number.) Even if it white did cease to be a color for some reason, the > > > ribbon would have to revert to a default color; there is no reason for > > > a ribbon to stop existing simply because its color ceases to be > > > defined, any more than a proposal or a player would cease to exist if > > > its Title ceased to be defined. > > > > I can't believe nobody has noticed this before. > > I did but was too busy to mention it. I was probably just going to bury it in > a report or something. I'm glad tswett did.
Counterargument: "Each color of Ribbon is a currency." (R2199). This implies (by currency definition) that the individual fungible classes of ribbon are in fact distinct enough to cease to exist if their color wholly ceases to be defined. -G.
