Sean Hunt wrote: > Benjamin Caplan wrote: >> Sean Hunt wrote: >>> I agree to the following >>> >>> {This is a pledge entitled Test Subject. It can either be Blue or Green. >>> It can either be Red or Yellow. It is initially Blue and Red. It's >>> Disclosure is Public. When this contract's Disclosure is flipped, it >>> becomes Green. When this contract's Sentiment is flipped, it becomes >>> Yellow. Any player CAN terminate this contract by announcement.} >>> >>> I CFJ {Test Subject is Green.} >>> >>> I CFJ {Test Subject is Yellow.} >>> >>> Arguments: There are three possibilities here. The first is that the >>> creation of the contract flips the switch by virtue of having it come to >>> be a given value. In that case, both conditions are met, and Test >>> Subject is Green and Yellow. >>> >>> The second is that the creation of the contract does not flip the >>> switch, but that when the contract makes itself Public, this does >>> constitute a flip, making it Red and Green. >>> >>> The third is that the switch always has one value and this is never >>> changed, causing it to be Blue and Red. >> This makes it clear that flipping is synonymous with coming to have a >> value, rather than a means of attaining as much. Thus, any event in >> which a switch "comes to have" a value -- in particular, when a newly >> created switch "comes to have" its default value -- is a flipping of >> that switch. > > Note that Test Subject never had its default Disclosure.
Are you arguing for the fourth possibility that the caller dismissed without argument, that Test Subject may be Blue and Yellow?