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The Rules

The Rules were last updated on May 5, 2001
and include effects of Proposals through Proposal 4146, and Proposal 4149.


When using my Rules on the web, I recommend you keep an eye on the "last updated" date above. Especially if you are unsure if a recent set of Rule Changes has been incorporated into these Rules.

From any of my Agora pages, you can navigate via the buttons at the top of the page.

 [Agora Home] takes you to my list of outside Agora links and Nomic links.
 
 [Rules Home] brings you to this page.
 
 [Rulesets] takes you to a page from which you can see various versions of the current Ruleset, as well as the Initial Ruleset.
 
 [List of All Rules] takes you to a list of all current Rules, with their numbers, powers, and titles listed. You can link to each Rule individually from there.
 
 [Categorized Rule Lists] takes you to a list of categories and subcategories, and allows you to find the Rules within those categories. Warning: the CRLs are currently in need of a major revision, but I don't know when I'll be able to get around to it.
 
 [Search the Rules] allows free-text searching of the Rules. This is a fairly new page, so I am particularly interested in hearing comments on it.
 

Within the various Rules documents, whenever a Rule Number is a hypertext link, you can click on it to get to the Rule's full record, which includes, among other things, its Number, Power, Title, text, history, and categories that it's listed under in the Categorized Rule Lists (which, it should be noted, is different from its Category within the Logical Rulesets).


A Note on Rule Updates and Locking

When I am in the process of updating the Rules, the Rules on the web are "locked" and you will not be able to access them. This is for two reasons.

  1. I cannot guarantee that the programs used to give access to the Rules over the web will work properly when I am in the middle of updating the Rules

  2. Even if the programs did work properly, I do not want to mislead people by making available a Ruleset which has incorporated some, but not all, of a set of Rule changes which took place at the same time.

When there is a set of changes to be made to the Rules, I try to do them in a single sitting, in which case they should not take more than an hour, or maybe two. However, if there are an exceptionally large number of Rule changes to record, it may take a few different sessions over the course of a day or so in order to update the Rules, during which time the Rules will remain locked. I apologize for the inconvenience, but I feel strongly about the reasons I listed above, particularly the second.


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