On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 10:14 -0500, Tanner Swett wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 3:27 PM, ais523 <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:23 -0800, Ed Murphy wrote: > >> [Disclaimer: This case may not exist.] > > > > If CFJ 3146 doesn't exist, I call it. > > > > [Can't resist an opportunity to make even more ambiguity…] > > I think the most natural interpretation of this sentence is "If there > does not exist a CFJ numbered 3146, then I call a CFJ numbered 3146", > which is ineffective. The only other reasonable interpretation, I > think, would be for "CFJ 3146" to refer to the statement alleged to be > that of CFJ 3146, for "doesn't exist" to mean "hasn't had a CFJ called > on it", and for "I call it" to mean "I call a CFJ on it".
The only interpretation I can see in which anything happens at all is "if there is not a CFJ numbered 3146, I attempt to create a CFJ as similar as possible to the one that would be numbered 3146 if it existed". I'm not entirely certain this is a meaningful operation… -- ais523
