Re: [s-b] Work is sucking the lifeforce from me--I mean, more than usual

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 3, 2004, at 10.00 PM, Jeremy Cook wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:29:54AM -0500, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > > I rule TRUE on the cfi. While it is true that there are many many
> > > examples of card games where cards which are laid down don't leave 
> > > the
> > > player's possession, or even in some cases the player's hand, there's
> > > still one thing they have in common--it's awfully hard to lay cards
> > > down which have already been laid down without picking them back up
> > > again. Common usage is a necessary evil, and it's certainly 
> > > applicable
> > > in this case. As picking the Cards up is not otherwise allowed for by
> > > the Rules, and the act of picking the Cards up would modify the game
> > > state, I'm going to have to rule that it can't be done.
> >
> > For reasons I've explained in a series of earlier posts, I Recall
> > Shenanigans on this CFI.
>
> What were those reasons again?
>
> I rule FALSE on this CFI. r1726 makes the general claim that all cards
> must have an Image. r1903 makes the specific claim that there exist
> cards without one. I rule that such a specific claim does not 
> contradict
> a general claim, by analogy with the following paragraph from r33:
>
> "The unconditional permitting of an action is a Blanket Permission. The
> conditional prohibiting of an action is a Specific Restriction. A
> Specific Restriction for an action is not considered to be in conflict
> with a Blanket Permission for that action, unless the implementation of
> the Specific Restriction eliminates any possible circumstance in which
> the action can be performed."

The CFI I was Recalling Shenanigans on was entitled "CFJ on Wonko" and 
was on the statement "Wonko did not succeed in laying down eir sequence 
of Green, Blue, and Indigo more than once."

Your judgment looks like it was intended for the CFJ entitled 'Color 
Cards', which hasn't been appealed, as far as I know.

"CFJ on Wonko", as well as its associated arguments, is near the top of 
the CurrentCFIs page.

--
Wonko

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our 
thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one 
another in the waking state?
                -- Plato

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