Contradiction in CSS2 specificity rules

As per 6.4.1 [1]:

    3. The secondary sort is by specificity of selector: more specific
       selectors will override more general ones. Pseudo-elements and
       pseudo-classes are counted as normal elements and classes,
       respectively.

And yet in 6.4.3 [2]:

     * count the number of element names in the selector (= c)
     * ignore pseudo-elements.

What gives? Do pseudo-elements have specificity or not?

Note that it makes no difference either way, actually - whether a
pseudo-element has specificity or not, the same rules will get
applied because of rule 1 in section 6.4.1.

But it would be good if the spec was self-consistent...


References:
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#cascading-order
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/cascade.html#specificity

-- 
Ian Hickson