Joel Uckelman on 29 Jan 2004 00:57:01 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Improving the game


Thus spake "Baron von Skippy":
>
> -Perhaps I should explain why I propose this. It's not just the dead-end decl
> aration of superiority it seems. Declaring that B Nomic is better than anythi
> ng implies:  B Nomic is better than sex. B Nomic is better than peyote (which
> , as I recall, was at least considered for inclusion in the motto). B Nomic i
> s better than two other games of B Nomic, both of which are better than each 
> other and it. B Nomic is better than Rules 10, 33, and 1702. B Nomic is bette
> r than the adjective "better."

Wouldn't it also entail that B Nomic is better than itself? I think it's a 
logical truth that for all x, x is not better than x.

-- 
J.


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