[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia, Emergence, and The Wisdom of Crowds

[Chad Perrin]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 08:50:48AM -0400, Stirling Newberry wrote:
> 
> On May 7, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> 
> >Ray Saintonge wrote:
> >
> >>Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> >>
> >>>>That's an awful lot to proclaim without a supporting argument.  I'm
> >>>>interested in details of why you think so.
> >>>
> >>>Well, my PhD is on the emergence of Law and I am using wikimedia and 
> >>>wikipedia as demonstrations for my arguments :)
> >>>
> >>>But you're right, I should write something on it !
> >>
> >>A simpler response would be to cite the clause in the statute that 
> >>says this.  To me a fundamental principal of law is that anything 
> >>which is not specifically forbidden is allowed.
> >>
> >>Ec
> 
> It isn't a principle of law, the correct principle is "that which is 
> not forbidden is allowed". The specifically changes the meaning 
> entirely.

Perhaps, then, that should be rephrased "that which is not 'explicitly'
forbidden is allowed" rather than "specifically".

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Chad Perrin
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