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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5586016" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>My issue with this is perhaps a little bit different from Matt James, but tends to lead in a similar direction.</p><p></p><p>The alleged distinction between RAI and RAW is mostly spurious, in my view, because the best theory of interpretation is unable to exclude the relevance of intention (either authorial intention, or the intention/purpose that a reasonable interpreter would impute given his/her interpretive location - in constitutional theory, this roughly captures the contrast between originalist and progressivist approaches to interpretation).</p><p></p><p>So discussion can be useful for helping clarify the intention and purpose behind a rule, and therefore for working out what it says - but there is no "rules as written" that stands in contrast to this. (And the ideal of a logically closed and error-free ruleset is ludicrous - the law doesn't achieve this, despite the billions of dollars spent on it and the efforts put in by thousands of legislators, judges and administrators - so it's unreaslistic to expect any game publisher to achieve it.)</p><p></p><p>On the particular issue of "using a power" - <em>Smith v. United States</em> 113 S. Ct. 2050 (1993) is a well-known case in which the members of the US Supreme Court have significant disagreement on what "using a firearm" means in the context of a criminal aggravation statute. There's no reason to think that the notion of "using a power" is any more capable of precise definition. After hearing the reasons for and against various interpretive possibilities, each table is going to have to reach its own decision.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5586016, member: 42582"] My issue with this is perhaps a little bit different from Matt James, but tends to lead in a similar direction. The alleged distinction between RAI and RAW is mostly spurious, in my view, because the best theory of interpretation is unable to exclude the relevance of intention (either authorial intention, or the intention/purpose that a reasonable interpreter would impute given his/her interpretive location - in constitutional theory, this roughly captures the contrast between originalist and progressivist approaches to interpretation). So discussion can be useful for helping clarify the intention and purpose behind a rule, and therefore for working out what it says - but there is no "rules as written" that stands in contrast to this. (And the ideal of a logically closed and error-free ruleset is ludicrous - the law doesn't achieve this, despite the billions of dollars spent on it and the efforts put in by thousands of legislators, judges and administrators - so it's unreaslistic to expect any game publisher to achieve it.) On the particular issue of "using a power" - [I]Smith v. United States[/I] 113 S. Ct. 2050 (1993) is a well-known case in which the members of the US Supreme Court have significant disagreement on what "using a firearm" means in the context of a criminal aggravation statute. There's no reason to think that the notion of "using a power" is any more capable of precise definition. After hearing the reasons for and against various interpretive possibilities, each table is going to have to reach its own decision. [/QUOTE]
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