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Comment author: Morendil 25 November 2009 08:19:30PM 3 points [-]

Peter Suber, the inventor of Nomic, is a legal scholar.

Comment author: RobinZ 25 November 2009 08:30:35PM 3 points [-]

...and Nomic itself was published as an appendix to his book on legal philosophy, The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Law, Logic, Omnipotence, and Change, although a preview of its rules appeared in one of Douglas Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas columns.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 25 November 2009 09:57:00PM 0 points [-]

That is not a refutation of anything I wrote. Lots of things invented by legal scholars turn out to have no positive effect on judicial systems.