Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: The Daily Recognizer (Friday night)

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:14:24PM -0400, Wonko wrote:
> > R155 also says:
> > 
> > "If a proposal, by adding, changing, or repealing rules, will generate effects
> > which are based on the way players vote on that proposal, or any other
> > specific proposal or proposals identified in the proposal, then those rules
> > generate no effects based on the way players vote on that particular
> > proposal."
> > 
> > It says this in R155/1.  The CFJ was on R155/0, which didn't say this.  CFJ
> > 254 doesn't apply to R155/1, then, because R155/1 is a significantly different
> > rule.
> 
> 
> Nonetheless, the same logic applies. The proposal does not generate effects
> based on how players voted. The rule may, but the rules are not the
> proposal.

What part of "by adding, changing, or repealing rules" don't you
understand? Is it the word "by"?

In this case, the preposition "by" means "using the method of", and the
rules are the method of generating these effects, so the rule applies.

-- 
Rob Speer