I think it’s simply a choice of phrasing that happened to cause an incongruous mental image for me; hence my attempt to work it around to a description I could encompass. I think of “to fail” as an active verb—futarchy doesn’t exist because we fail to enact it. In my brain, something that doesn’t exist can’t do anything, including fail to exist. As for the Pearl reference, I think I’ll just point you to the source.
I think it’s simply a choice of phrasing that happened to cause an incongruous mental image for me; hence my attempt to work it around to a description I could encompass. I think of “to fail” as an active verb—futarchy doesn’t exist because we fail to enact it. In my brain, something that doesn’t exist can’t do anything, including fail to exist. As for the Pearl reference, I think I’ll just point you to the source.