Tyler on Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:13:21 -0700 (MST) |
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Re: [s-b] [s-d] Consultation 193, Priest j |
Hehe, oops. Entirely unintentional. I was just doing pseudo-random assignment. (Meaning that I think of who has been assigned one least recently.) Still Consultation 193. I assign it to Priest JamesB. On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Jay Campbell <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Invalid, I'm the unbeliever and the scammer. > > > > Tyler wrote: > >> Consultation 193. I assign it to Priest j. >> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:21 AM, <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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> spoon-business mailing list >>> spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx >>> http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-business >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > spoon-discuss mailing list > spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx > http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss > -- -Tyler _______________________________________________ spoon-business mailing list spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-business