On 12/31/24 21:09, Mischief via agora-discussion wrote: > On 12/31/24 6:41 PM, Janet Cobb via agora-business wrote: > >> Gratuitous: >> >> This is trivially FALSE. "in this message" means the message in which >> the CFJ was called. > Ha, initially I didn't even catch that the first sentence is a > counterargument to the second. > > The point being, "this" has more than one possible antecedent when > there's a quoted message. >
CFJ statements are meant to be read independently. Those gratuitous arguments weren't. In any event, there's very clear game custom about this. [0] shows 83 appearances of "quoted message" (as opposed to simply saying "this message" to refer to a quoted message), and picking a few old cases with "this message" in the statement uniformly shows them as meaning the message in which the CFJ was called, even if there was a quote in the body [1] [2] [3]. [0]: https://agoranomic.org/cases/ [1]: https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2011-November/029243.html [2]: https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2010-June/025793.html [3]: https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2012-August/030243.html [4]: https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2013-July/031813.html -- Janet Cobb Assessor, Rulekeepor
