On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffsp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Warrigal <ihope12...@gmail.com> wrote: >> While this does result in White Ribbons not being needed for a >> Renaissance win (as White is no longer mentioned in the rule), it does >> not result in White Ribbons ceasing to exist, as they are never >> destroyed and are still implicitly defined. > > Any asset that exists only as a legal fiction ceases to exist when > there's no rule maintaining that fiction.
The asset defined is not "white ribbon"; it is "ribbon". Every ribbon then has a color. A white ribbon is a ribbon whose color is white; even though the rules stop using the term "white ribbon", white does not cease to be a color. (Likewise, a rule can have power 3 even though the rules never define 3 as a valid non-negative rational number.) Even if it white did cease to be a color for some reason, the ribbon would have to revert to a default color; there is no reason for a ribbon to stop existing simply because its color ceases to be defined, any more than a proposal or a player would cease to exist if its Title ceased to be defined. —Gratuitous Arguer Tanner L. Swett
