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From: dave@cogsci.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
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Subject: Re: Proposed Guidelines Change (was Re: A Few Observations)
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Date: 17 Nov 89 03:19:16 GMT
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In article <5289@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:

>I'm going to take a survey. Please MAIL me your opinion: should the rule that
>would require at least 2/3 of the votes to be YES, in addition to the 100 more
>YES than NO rule, be added to the creation guidelines? I will count up
>the responses for a couple of weeks and post the results just like a regular
>vote.

Ah yes...but are we going to determine the results of this vote by the old
rules or by the new rules?  Seems to me, the only fair thing to do is to go by
the new rules if and only if the vote passes.

So, let's say we get 60% YES votes.

By the old rules, it passes, so we have to use the new rules.
By the new rules, it fails, so we have to use the old rules.

Hmmmm...

[P.S. :-)]


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Dave Chalmers     (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"To live outside the law you must be honest..."