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Comment author: fubarobfusco 03 August 2012 07:45:04PM 0 points [-]

I didn't claim an algorithm was specified by its postcondition; just that saying "agree that X is a good thing without knowing what X means" is, for algorithms X, equivalent to "agree that X is a good thing before we possess X".