This is another piece of infrastructure buildup before contracts. I'm getting kinda tired of having to put paradox avoidance boilerplate all over the place, so this consolidates it.
--- Title: Conditionals and Determinacy Adoption index: 3.0 Author: Aris Co-author(s): Create a power 3.0 rule entitled "Conditionals and Determinacy", with the following text: A conditional is any textual structure that attempts to make a statement affecting any part or aspect of the gamestate (the substrate), or the permissibility or possibility of any action affecting such a part or aspect, dependent on the truth value or other state of a textual structure (the condition). The condition is said to be "affixed" to the substrate (inverse "to be conditional upon"). A condition is inextricable if it is unclear, ambiguous, circular, inconsistent, paradoxical, depends on information that is impossible or unreasonably difficult to determine, or otherwise requires an unreasonable effort resolve; otherwise it is extricable. A conditional is inextricable if its condition is inextricable; otherwise it is extricable. A player SHOULD NOT use an inextricable conditional. A player SHALL NOT make an action taken by announcement conditional on an inextricable condition, and any such conditional is INVALID, and its substrate void and without effect; these restrictions should be interpreted in accordance with existing precedent, and this rule defers to judicial discretion and game custom. If a restricted value, or the value of a conditional, or a value otherwise required to determine the outcome of a restricted action, CANNOT be reasonably determined (without circularity or paradox) from information reasonably available, or if it alternates instantaneously and indefinitely between values, then the value is considered to be indeterminate, otherwise it is determinate. If an action would, as part of its effect, make a restricted value indeterminate, it is void and without effect unless it is explicitly permitted to do so by a rule; this restriction should be interpreted in accordance with existing precedent, and this rule defers to judicial discretion and game custom. Amend Rule 1023, "Common Definitions", by removing the third item of the top level list, and renumbering appropriately. --- -Aris
