Goethe wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:02 PM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 13:58 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: >>>> Intentionally failing to perform an action is a form of dishonesty, >>>> and it should be every bit as illegal as any other lie. Do you have a >>>> specific scenario in mind where this is not the case? >>> Goethe and I have both posted examples of such scenarios to a-d >>> recently. >> Links? I haven't been following the full discussion. > > Well, I pointed out a couple that happened to me here: > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > although (a) to be fair, I covered those attempts with various disclaimers > explaining the situation, although (b) I'm puzzled by the disclaimers issue. > If you disclaim an action (those of you who claim that action statements > can be false) wouldn't the disclaimer always cause it to fail? You can't > have it both ways!
I think the intended interpretation is that "I do X (disclaimer: maybe not)" is ineffective, while "I do X (disclaimer: not if Y)" is effective provided that Y is false at the time (IOW, it's equivalent to "if not Y then I do X").
