On 9/23/2021 10:00 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote: > However, Rule 2140 is not the only Rule that governs how lower-powered > Rules affect higher-powered Rules. Rule 217's second paragraph states > when lower-powered definitions may affect higher-powered Rules.
I don't think it's correct to call Rule 1769 the "definition" of the term holiday for R217 purposes. Words like "holiday" aren't chosen randomly as a term of art, they mean something. In common language, a holiday is a special time period during which special legal rules may apply. Rule 1769 nonexclusively declares a couple time periods to be holidays and (also nonexclusively) describes some particular Agoran legal rules for holidays. That doesn't make it the "definition" of a holiday, but rather wholly supports the common usage. A lower-powered rule couldn't override this high-level common usage (by declaring a person to be a holiday for example, out of keeping with the common definition) but it's wholly in keeping with that R1769 usage, and not at all "in conflict", to declare additional time periods to be holidays. -G.
