Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Foomp

[SkArcher <SkArcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

18/07/2003 04:40:09, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 12:49  AM, Baron von Skippy wrote:
>
>>>>  Okay, then. I change the value of my Score, Charm, BAC, Activity,
>>>> Entropy, and Style to "any real number," noting that those undefined
>>>> values are within the limits set by the subsections of 154 that 
>>>> define
>>>> those dimensions. Now, this doesn't mean that I win, but it does mean
>>>> that either you didn't win either or we've got to do the SOE dance
>>>> again.
>>>
>>> No, it means that you tried to use the hole I found to something more
>>> than that hole can do, namely setting your dimensions to a 
>>> nonnumerical
>>> value, whereas I did it the right way and won.
>>>
>>> Just because I found a way to change dimensions in some respects
>>>
>> -No, the rule quite clearly states that my dimensions can be "any real 
>> number." So now they're all "any real number." I moved along the axes, 
>> as it were, to the point "any real number." Now where is that point?-
>
>I think you just stepped over the line from weird to absurd. "any real 
>number" could be interpreted to mean any number that is real, or it 
>could mean the string value "any real number"; but in this case it's 
>blindingly obvious what the meaning is.
>
Unfortuanately, this is Nomic, not common sense. What is written is important, and in this case there is a very real difference between 'any real number' and 'a 
value of any real number'


SkArcher 


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