On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, omd wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > Gratuitous: regardless of the "real" sequence of events, the Legal Fiction
> > established at power-3.2 is that Bucky's conditional was never satisfied, so
> > e was never a player in the first place. This case is an important
> > precedent
> > for the question "what is truth?" -Pontius G.
>
> Gratuitous: Note again, though, that if the gamestate doesn't contain
> history, changing the gamestate to "what it would be" doesn't actually
> create anything describable as a Legal Fiction. In that case we are
> left with the real sequence of events.
I firmly believe that the language of the proposal makes it reasonably clear
that the effects created a fully retroactive legal fiction - the gamestate
can't actually be "what it would have been" without the corresponding
legal fiction that the history is also "what it would have been."
-G.
