On Sun, 2008-07-13 at 21:11 +0100, Zefram wrote: > ais523 wrote: > >I attempt to > ... > >, but fail. > > I wonder whether this qualifies for acting by announcement. On the > face of it, this was not an announcement that ais523 did something, but > rather an announcement that e made a failed attempted to do something. > That doesn't meet the requirements of R478, so probably doesn't initiate > the CFJ. > > Then we must consider whether it was an *attempt* to initiate a CFJ > (as it claims). This depends on what ais523 thought would happen. > > -zefram Clearly, I would only initiate a criminal CFJ against myself if I had in fact committed the crime in question; therefore, I intended to initiate the criminal CFJ if and only if my attempt to initiate the CFJ did not fail, like I claimed, i.e. I intended to initiate the CFJ if and only if I initiated the CFJ.
Oh, and this little bit of confusion is designed as an exercise to show the absurdity of finding speech acts to be lying. -- ais523
