| Jamie Dallaire on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:46:01 -0700 (MST) |
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| Re: [s-b] Further consultations on the Sharpener |
I find the Answer to Consultation 166 to be Consistent.
BP
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.
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