Kerim Aydin wrote:
Maud wrote:
The Speaker, Clerk of the Courts, and Promotor are mutually
exclusive offices.
This sentence plainly designates the position of Speaker as an office,
so by rule 1006, Speaker is an office.
I disagree. Being "mutually exclusive offices" is either a qualifier
on offices or a whole (nonseparable) term in and of itself, and does
not create an implicit definition Speaker ~ Offices.
If it is a qualifier on offices then it would also be possible to leave
out the qualifier: The Speaker, CotC, and Promotor are offices...the
extra words only give extra information about what type of offices they
are. But if those words qualify "offices," it would be impossible for
the list to be of "mutually exclusive offices," if they are not "offices."
Cecilius
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Scott Rollins
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Arnprior, ON, Canada
