Tanner Swett wrote:
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Ed Murphy<emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote:
If the above-quoted message failed to initiate a judicial case,
then I initiate one with the statement "Do or did I register. ?"
Arguments (on whichever of these cases exists): Trivially TRUE;
whoever initiated this case did register at some point, though
not necessarily recently.
Arguments: to me, "did I register?" sounds like it's asking about a
specific time period (in this case, the time that the ehird's message
was sent), much the way that "did you buy milk at the gas station?" is
asking only about the most recent trip outside.
Agoran practice is to the contrary, i.e. CFJ statements of the form
"X has happened" are not implicitly limited to the recent past (e.g.
CFJ 1733). When the statement doesn't add an explicit limit, it's
often because it's uncontroversial that X couldn't have happened any
time other than recently (e.g. CFJ 3106).
