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

[Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
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