On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 6:32 PM ais523 via agora-discussion <
agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
This logic relies on "the proposal" being something that can't be created
again, when really it's just the specifications of the proposal you're
referring to. It's more like "81 times, I do X. X is done with Y as the
conditions." Just because I only specified the parameters once, doesn't
mean it only applies once. It's as if I specified it each time I did the
action, since "the proposal" is just a shorthand for "a proposal with the
following attributes".
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