RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Moderation among the justi ce reform

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:19 PM 1/17/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> Contrast it with our current, Platonist, system, where we can repeal rule 
> 10 with no ill effects (proof of this is left as an exercise for the 
> reader, or me later when I have more time). In fact, I think in many ways 
> we'd be better off without it, because it claims powers it simply cannot have.

There is nothing inherently Platonist about the current ruleset.

Rule 10 only "claims powers it simply cannot have" if you view it from a 
Platonist perspective.

From the pragmatic viewpoint, it causes no problems because rules are 
prescriptive, not descriptive. In fact, in this view, Rule 10 becomes the 
cornerstone for a judicial system because it is the prescription from which 
the need for further interpretation of rules springs.

Didn't platonism go out with the Ancient Greeks? You are so friggin' passe. 
Someone pass that boy a stylish pink scarf.

Yay Pragmatism!

--gritter