Yo dawg. Sent from my iPad
On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > I call for judgement on the statement "It is POSSIBLE for the CotC to > assign a judge to a CFJ, other than this one, which has exactly this > statement". Then if I have not already done so, I publish a copy of the > text of this email. > > Arguments: > The question is as to whether I can publish a message whilst publishing > a message. I clearly haven't finished publishing this message yet at its > second sentence, so that should publish the message again. (Test 1: Is > it possible to publish a message via reference, especially if the entire > content of the message to publish is present in the same email? The > common TTttPF behaviour implies it is.) Assuming that that works, it > presumably creates a second CFJ. The next problem is to determine the > relative timings of the CFJs; do they happen simultaneously, or one > after the other? If the latter, which comes first? Can the CotC assign a > judge to a CFJ /as/ it's being created? (Admittedly, e'd have to take > actions interspersed with mine; it would be entirely possible in theory, > though, if I were the CotC at the time.) (Test 2: If there are two CFJs, > are the correct judgements FALSE/FALSE, FALSE/TRUE, or TRUE/TRUE?) The > remaining question is as to whether the email gets published an infinite > number of times, and thus creates five CFJs; I think this is very > unlikely though, both because it would be too much of a stretch to do > with one abbreviation (or any other way), and because it's clearly > taking the same action twice when the action says "if I have not already > done so"; this is probably evidence in favour for the actions in the > referenced message happening after the publication of the original > message, rather than during. > > -- > ais523 >
