Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Regarding r2419

2014-02-16 Thread Brian Blomlie
My line of argument falls on the fact that I didn’t make clear that I’m assuming that the scores being reset actually serves a purpose within the frame of the game itself. If it doesn’t the game is free to end as it pleases without the score being reset. Seeing as the scores being reset is expl

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Regarding r2419

2014-02-16 Thread Fool
On 2014-02-16 1:06 PM, Nicholas Evans wrote: Sorry, the statement isn't past-perfctive but rather present-perfective. My statement still holds as perfectives refer to some event as a whole, not (necessarily) to any current state. It might have been the past impossible never tense.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Regarding r2419

2014-02-16 Thread Brian Blomlie
That’s covered by my second thesis. I’d rather say our disagreement is semantical. Because if the game has (present-perfect) ended is a true statement, then it clearly hasn’t ended according to my definition of having ended. Or if it did, then that statement would no longer apply to the game we

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Regarding r2419

2014-02-16 Thread Nicholas Evans
Sorry, the statement isn't past-perfctive but rather present-perfective. My statement still holds as perfectives refer to some event as a whole, not (necessarily) to any current state.

DIS: Re: BUS: Regarding r2419

2014-02-16 Thread Nicholas Evans
On 2/15/2014 4:52 PM, Brian Blomlie wrote: -First thesis- The contradiction consisting in having escape velocity and a score of 0 If there is a player of Agora who has escape velocity, then there doesn’t exist a player that has escape velocity. Here I’m making the assumption that the rule is