Re: [s-b] Further consultations on the Sharpener

[Warrigal <ihope127+w@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Billy Pilgrim wrote:
>
>>>  Below is Consultation 166. I assign it to Priest Murphy.
>>
>>> {Were any mackerel successfully destroyed by the Pencil Sharpener?
>>>>> Unbeliever: comex
>>>>> Arguments: The arguments in my previous consultation established that
>>>>> if the Laser Printer worked (which it did) then the Pencil Sharpener
>>>>> failed to specify its procedure concretely enough. Given the
>>>>> fungibility of mackerel, "m30000 in the possession of comex" is
>>>>> sufficiently specific, but "all mackerel created by the laser printer
>>>>> is not." (If macks were non-fungible, the latter would be valid but
>>>>> not the former; were this the case the Sharpener couldn't have been
>>>>> built.}
>
> NO, because the Laser Printer didn't work.

I find this Inconsistent.

--Warrigal
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