DIS: Re: BUS: Two judgements, five punts, one proto-judgement

2007-06-08 Thread Zefram
Ed Murphy wrote: I intend to judge CFJ 1677 TRUE on behalf of Human Point Two, as a direct consequence of Judge BobTHJ's judgement of CFJ 1676. Surely that would be FALSE? BobTHJ's judgement implies that this in this kind of statement refers to the CFJ. -zefram

DIS: proposal 4939 crisis

2007-06-08 Thread Zefram
As I interpret it, the judgement of CFJ 1669 means that proposal 4939, which we thought was a legal distribution of Murphy's Re-divide some offices proposal, was actually not a legal distribution. Murphy's proposal is presumably still in the proposal pool. What about the purported resolution of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Two judgements, five punts, one proto-judgement

2007-06-08 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: I intend to judge CFJ 1677 TRUE on behalf of Human Point Two, as a direct consequence of Judge BobTHJ's judgement of CFJ 1676. Surely that would be FALSE? BobTHJ's judgement implies that this in this kind of statement refers to the CFJ. Yes, that's right.

Re: DIS: proposal 4939 crisis

2007-06-08 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: As I interpret it, the judgement of CFJ 1669 means that proposal 4939, which we thought was a legal distribution of Murphy's Re-divide some offices proposal, was actually not a legal distribution. Murphy's proposal is presumably still in the proposal pool. What about the

DIS: Proto-judgments of CFJs 1659 and 1660

2007-06-08 Thread Ian Kelly
== CFJ 1659 == The phrase by announcement and similar phrases used by the charter of Primo Corporation, when qualified by the additional phrase to the Corporate Forum, are not bound by the standard Rule definition of the

Re: DIS: On partnerships

2007-06-08 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: This seems to indicate that a partnership's obligations are only enforceable to the extent that the partnership's members desire them to be enforced. Any thoughts? Erk. I'd say we need to fix that. In real-world contract law there is the concept of third-party rights in

Re: DIS: On partnerships

2007-06-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/8/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: This seems to indicate that a partnership's obligations are only enforceable to the extent that the partnership's members desire them to be enforced. Any thoughts? Erk. I'd say we need to fix that. In real-world contract law there

Re: DIS: On partnerships

2007-06-08 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: recently pointed out, the current reading of the first paragraph is just a truism. I don't read it as a truism. I prefer a reading that gives it significance. It seems to me that it is defining a class of Agoran entity: the binding agreement. We have often referred to these as

Re: DIS: On partnerships

2007-06-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/8/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: recently pointed out, the current reading of the first paragraph is just a truism. I don't read it as a truism. I prefer a reading that gives it significance. It seems to me that it is defining a class of Agoran entity: the binding

Re: DIS: On partnerships

2007-06-08 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: Should I then be expecting a refutation of my proto-judgment of CFJ 1660? I'm not entirely happy with your reasoning on those CFJs, but actually I was pondering refuting your proto-judgement of CFJ 1659. I think prohibiting a word or phrase from having contextually-defined

Re: DIS: On partnerships

2007-06-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/8/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Kelly wrote: Should I then be expecting a refutation of my proto-judgment of CFJ 1660? I'm not entirely happy with your reasoning on those CFJs, but actually I was pondering refuting your proto-judgement of CFJ 1659. I think prohibiting a word or

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Proto: Clean up the Registrar rules

2007-06-08 Thread Benjamin Schultz
On Jun 7, 2007, at 4:20 AM, Zefram wrote: Ed Murphy wrote: The Registrar's report shall include the following: ... c) Whether each player is active or inactive, and the date on which eir status last changed. I dislike this. I think the reporting requirement for activity

DIS: On partnerships

2007-06-08 Thread Kerim Aydin
root wrote: All but the first paragraph is about enforcement. And as Goethe recently pointed out, the current reading of the first paragraph is just a truism. As, presumably, was the previous reading, since the current reading is just a generalization of the same. No, the previous

Re: DIS: On partnerships

2007-06-08 Thread Ian Kelly
On 6/8/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: root wrote: All but the first paragraph is about enforcement. And as Goethe recently pointed out, the current reading of the first paragraph is just a truism. As, presumably, was the previous reading, since the current reading is just a