[s-b] Consultation 193

[James Baxter <jebaxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I answer Consultation 193 NO.
 
Reasoning: The sentence "Any Legal Entity may destroy any amount of mackerel in their possession as a Game Action." has the singular, Legal Entity, as opposed to the plural, Legal Entities, as its subject.
 
It is possible for the word "their" to be used as a third person indefinite singular in the English language and the use of a possesive means that, even if it did refer to a plural, it would require the consent of all Players whose mack were to be destroyed (basically the equivalant of multiple people destroying mackerel independently of each other at the same time). I do not consent to the destruction of my mackerel.
 
> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:13:16 -0700
> From: wisety@xxxxxxxxx
> To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 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:
> 
> > 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.
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