Re: [s-b] Consultation 23

["Peter Cooper Jr." <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Geoffrey Spear" <geoffspear@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 7/19/07, Aaron Coquet <farfromunique@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I submit the following consultations:
>> Can the answer to a consultation have multiple answers (IE, the answer
>> is sometimes TRUE and sometimes FALSE)?
>
> This is Consultation 23.  I assign it to Peter.

Answer: TRUE

Reasoning:
I suspect that the Supplicant did not ask what e meant to ask
here. Our appeals process (claiming of Consistency or Inconsistency)
can change the answer of a Consultation. So, for a particular
consultation, at some times the answer could be YES, and at a
different time it would be NO.

Based on my current understanding of the rules, it is not possible for
a Consultation to have both a YES and NO answer at the same time. This
assumes that the "or" in "Answer eir assigned Consultation YES or NO"
in r2-5 is an exclusive or, but that's a fairly standard English
meaning of the word, and I would expect it to be explicitly stated if
it were possible for it to be both. However, this paragraph has no
bearing on the question that was originally asked.

But, yes, a consultation can have multiple answers, in certain
circumstances. (So, maybe the best answer here would be "Sometimes YES
and sometimes NO"? :)

-- 
Peter C.
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