On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 11:47:14PM +0100, ais523 via agora-discussion wrote: > On Mon, 2021-07-12 at 15:40 -0700, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion > wrote: > > Those arguments seem quite confusing, but this seems rather simple? If > > Person A and B are tied for the lead in something, does Person A have the > > most? No, Person B has just as much. And vice versa. There is no person > > with the most, so nobody gets it. The End? > > I think the argument is that because the rule uses "the", it implies > that exactly one such person exists, and thus creates a legal fiction > that one such person exists: we merely have to figure out who. > > I don't think the argument holds up, but it's an interesting direction > to go in. > > -- > ais523 >
Yes, that's what I had in mind. -- Falsifian