On Sun, 2022-07-17 at 19:48 -0500, secretsnail9 via agora-discussion wrote: > It really just depends on how you define "different". If they are the same, > they could have just both been denied when I denied the first one. You > don't have to exist to be preemptively denied. You could also interpret > this as being when the second CoE was issued, it inherited the denial from > the first one, since they are the same. A weirder issue, though, is if they > are the same CoE, that CoE may not exist, since a CoE is a doubt, and when > you deny a doubt, it ceases to be a doubt... so you may not be able to > issue it again, since it's no longer a doubt.
They aren't the same CoE (despite having the same content), and I'm surprised that there can be any controversy about that. (It's also impossible to pre-emptively deny a CoE, as you can't deny it *before* it exists; the action of denying a CoE requires an actual CoE as its referent. If it were possible, that would allow for a trivial scam.) Your reasoning here is pretty much following the same logic as "all coins with the same owner are identical, thus each player only actually has one coin", which would also be invalid reasoning. -- ais523
