Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Ballot, nweek 8

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Donald Whytock,

> On 3/3/02 at 7:49 PM Wonko wrote:
> 
>> Quoth Donald Whytock,
>> 
>> 
>>>> Proposal 409/0: I Have Found The Solution! (Baron von Skippy)
>>> No.  It needs better wording: As it's written now, it will rewrite r259
>> to
>>> say, "For the purposes of the rules, and for all other purposes within
>> the
>>> game, the term "proposal" shall be considered precisely equivalent to
>> the far
>>> superior term "proposal"."  If "proposal" is precisely equivalent to
>>> "proposal", yet "proposal" is far superior to "proposal", this is a
>> paradox.
>>> 
>>> Nice try, though.
>> 
>> Um... the words "except in r259" would seem to me to indicate that it
>> wouldn't rewrite r259 at all.... Unless this is some strange usage of the
>> word 'except' that I wasn't previously aware of...
>> 
>> 
>> --Wonko
> 
> The words "except in r259" are part of the second sentence, which has to do
> with proposals.  The first sentence, which has to do with existing rules,
> doesn't have that condition.
> 
> Glotmorf
> 
> 

Ah, I see. I apologize for not reading it carefully.

--Wonko

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