Cannot pass with 12 votes against. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 10 Feb 2009 14:05:03 UTC
Add the following to the Glossary:
In cases of conflict between two rules, the more specific rule takes precedence over the less specific rule.
Cannot pass with 12 votes against. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 10 Feb 2009 14:05:03 UTC
Add the following to the Glossary:
In cases of conflict between two rules, the more specific rule takes precedence over the less specific rule.
But are there any cases where this wouldn’t echo the “common sense” we’ve been using so far?
Although I do think this is the basic rule we follow, I think it is an integral part of how the English language is interpreted and does not need to be stated outright anymore than the unspoken rules for parsing an English sentence. When there are disagreements on how an English sentence is interpreted, you make a CfJ. I don’t see any difference here.
dangerously misinterpretable - a system of ‘levels’ for all concepts introduced by rules would be required to have a non ‘common sense’ based definition of what is ‘more specific’.
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