From: Anton Cox (A.G.Cox_at_city.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 09:20:46 PDT
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jesse Welton wrote: > I would say that your 169:6 retroactively made me guilty of > unoriginality (from 169:3). It is a tricky question as to what is an action, and what a quality. That "square 3 has the property of keeping safe", (or that "rolling seven has the property of introducing a new constraint to the game") are not "things that have being going on that I was unaware of" is (***relatively***) uncontroversial. That "our tokens have properties", or that "players have properties which can vary" are also such is perhaps more controversial. I was taking the view that "what was going on" was those events that I could be expected to detect (ie concrete actions), as opposed to 'abstract' properties that later turn out to affect the game. Clearly, one can interpret the phrase to mean every state in the game - but then, as Jesse has pointed out, almost all rules would fail. So the question is, how does one interpret the phrase in its most generous sense (to the other players). Best Wishes Anton -- Rule Date: 2001-10-03 16:20:04 GMT
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