Re: [s-b] Bums Consultation.

[Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Counter-argument.

"A man may wear a hat. Any man may take off his hat." - "his" may refer 
to the first or second man.

"A man may wear a hat. Any woman may take off his hat." - "his" 
definitely refers to the first and only man.

The latter demonstrates that a second sentence's pronoun often serves as 
a pointer the a noun in a prior sentence.

My game action was not ambiguous, as I specifically and plainly 
destroyed everyone else's Macks by talking about everyone else in the 
same format the Rules do, and then destroying "their mack", not "my mack".

j


bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I submit the following Consultation specifying "J" as the Unbeliever: { Did
> J destroy all of the game's mackerel save his own? } Arguments: There's no
> plural subject in the sentence "Any Legal Entity may destroy any amount of
> mackerel in their possession as a Game Action." so the impersonal pronoun
> refers to the singular "Legal Entity". The word "their" is used
> interchangeably in English to serve the purposes of the impersonal singular
> pronoun, and the impersonal plural pronoun. This is not inappropriate, or
> ambiguous in normal communication, as whether or not the word is plural or
> singular is picked up from context. If however, the meaning is ambiguous in
> B, and cannot be picked up from context, then the game action did not occur
> as the game action requires the calculation of an impossible or ambiguous
> number. So, if the game action destroying everyone's mackerel succeeded,
> the game action did not occur due to the game state ambiguity. 
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