Judgement in CFJ 2302:
The text of the agreement in question reads in part:
> Warrigal can join this contract if and only if the Riemann
> hypothesis is false.
followed by Warrigal's attempt to join this contest by announcement.

If the phrase above were in the Rules, it would indeed set up an
undecidable condition and a paradox.  The rules, by being unlimited in 
scope (R2141/2) are able to set a legal conditional contingent on 
wholly unknown and or unknowable "truths" without worrying or caring 
whether the truth of the matter can be practically resolved.

On the other hand, if the phrase were used as part of a player's 
conditional announcement "I give Goethe 3 coins if the Riemann 
hypothesis is false", it would fail.  Except for the case of conditional 
votes which are explicitly regulated, conditional action announcements 
are a courtesy of Agoran custom and not Rule, similar to "I do X N 
times".  In these, the conditional is allowed to succeed if resolving 
it does not cause undue burden.  In particular, CFJ 1460 specifically 
cites a Riemann Hypothesis conditional as an example of a failed 
(i.e. wholly thrown out) communication attempt.

So, if the phrase is part of a contract, is it more like a Rule or
a player's statement?  It is in fact somewhere in between.  In
particular, while the text of a contract is judicable as a logical
and legal construct, the Rules do not grant contracts the same broad 
ability to set game conditions on par with R2141/2.  The fact that 
R1742/17 defines a contract as simply "agreement between one or more 
persons" suggests that, in general, agreements cover the sorts 
of things that players generally can do, and do not extend to the
full scope of what rules can do.  Also, it is for the good of the 
game, where the rules are silent, to assume that while the Rules may 
delegate their unlimited scope to sub-documents such as contracts, 
that such delegation must be relatively specific and not automatic, 
and a mere statement that agreements can be created and be binding 
does not make such agreements on par with rules in their ability
to define reality.  Overall, for the purposes of interpreting this
CFJ, the contract+join attempt has more in common with players 
communicating (joint) action attempts than it has in common with 
Rules.

Therefore, this court finds that by attempting to agree to this 
contract clause, Warrigal+contract together is communicating to
the Agoran courts/Agora as a whole: "I join this contract iff the
Riemann hypothesis is false".  It is reasonable to extend the
precedent of CFJ 1460, covering single statements that directly
contain unreasonably difficult conditionals, to a conditional that's
in part due to Warrigal's statement and in part contained in a
contract.   As a whole, Warrigal fails to reasonably communicate 
an action due to the difficulty of resolving the conditional, and 
so the action of joining fails.  Therefore, as Warrigal is not
constrained by the contract, it is TRUE that e may transfer assets.

-Goethe



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