Murphy wrote: > On or about Wed, 8 Jul 2026 05:04:00 -0500, snail planted Radishes.
I temporarily deputize for the Arbitor to designate this as CFJ 4158 and assign it to Galle. Original CFJ and Caller's Arguments: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg49324.html I enter a judgement of FALSE on CFJ 4158. Judge's Arguments: === This case turns on the following attempted conditional action by snail: > If this week's weather is 95 or lower, 16 times, I plant Radishes by paying a > fee of 162 pyrite. As the caller argues, "this week's weather" is ambiguous - it could refer either to the value of the Weather switch at the time snail attempted the action, or it could refer to the Weather selected for that week by the Land Managor, which had not yet been selected and was therefore indeterminate. Two points move this judge in favor of the latter interpretation. First, "this week's weather" clearly presupposes that there is a conspicuous, unique weather value associated with each week. The only reasonable candidates for such are the weather selected that week and the weather at the end of the week (when the weather causes game effects), and these are under normal circumstances the same value. Second, strategic analysis suggests that snail intended to make eir action dependent on the week's selected weather. Radishes have 95 Resilience - if snail planted Radishes and then a higher Weather was selected, e would lose those Radishes at the end of the week. The current Weather value has no such strategic implications. For these reasons, this judge believes that "this week's weather" refers to the weather selected that week. However, even if it did not, that merely makes the referent ambiguous. In either case, the conditional action failed, either because the antecedent was indeterminate or because it was ambiguous. === I currently qualify for a blue ribbon, cyan ribbon, white ribbon, an ultraviolet ribbon, and platinum ribbon. Having already been awarded a platinum ribbon, I hereby award myself a transparent ribbon, a white ribbon, and an ultraviolet ribbon. - Galle, Speaker and Champion
