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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8178586" data-attributes="member: 71699">What a strange conclusion to reach about my motives. My lense on rules is informed by game theorists such as Suits, Reiland, Kreider, Royce, Juul, and Aarseth, among others. On meaning in this specific regard, probably most by Wittgenstein, but also Quine. And on legal theory a little by Dworkin.I take an important function of rules to be constitutive: they are followed just so that the enjoyed behaviour can exist. Without the rules of Chess for example, one cannot enjoy the experience of that game. Their meaning is - well it is a complicated matter - let's say it is a useful consensus built upon a foundation of meanings pre-existing in games, language and culture generally. If one of the people who hopes to be playing the game chooses to uphold an entirely different meaning to everyone else, then chances are they will not enjoy the game in the same way and may perhaps harm or get in the way of the enjoyment for others.Of course authors are fallible. In fact, I find the particular ways they fail fascinating. It is interesting to encounter a paradox, ambiguity or lacuna. It is fun to do a bit of sleuthing to see if a consistent and useful meaning can be derived from what is there. In this case... probably. One can make a reasonable inference that looks pretty consistent with everything that is there. [USER=6750235]@Ashrym[/USER] landed on that quickly. Initially, I couldn't see how it might be sustained, but then [USER=6788732]@cbwjm[/USER], [USER=7020569]@Stoutstien[/USER] and [USER=6750235]@Ashrym[/USER] again drew attention to further evidence.As for JC, really? A true prophet?! How on Earth do you get to there from what I wrote? I guess you haven't read my posts elsewhere regarding some of his sillier rulings. As one of the key designers, what he says about intent is helpful in various ways.</blockquote>

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