On Fri, 2022-07-15 at 18:17 -0500, secretsnail9 via agora-discussion
wrote:
> > In order to force this reading, you'd have to write something like
> > "81
> > times, I perform the following action: {{{ I submit the following
> > proposal: … }}}", which is a long way away from what you actually
> > wrote, and I don't think this is a plausible reading of what you
> > actually wrote (especially when it has a very clear natural
> > meaning).
>
> This surprises me, I don't see a difference between "81 times, I do
> X" and "81 times, I perform the following action: I do X" Is it not
> the same thing? Would it be if it was "81 times: I do X" instead?
It's to do with the size of X. You've written, in effect, "81 times, I
do X. Y.", so Y only happens once, and in this case Y is specifying
what "the proposal" refers to. "81 times: I do X. Y." would be
ambiguous if it were all on one line (and probably fail due to the
ambiguity). "81 times: {{{ I do X. Y. }}}" unambiguously has 81 Xs
which each have their own corresponding Y, whereas your version has 81
Xs which each share the same Y, i.e. they all correspond to the same
proposal.
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