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Subject: Re: Deety's and Lewis Carroll's game of sorites in TNOTB - did Deety's 6 statements lead to "Gay Deceiver is a time-traveling machine"?
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loupgarous wrote:
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I'm open to any logical arguments I may have overlooked that Deety's 
statements don't lead to only one possible outcome, that being that Gay 
Deceiver is "a time-traveling machine."  Honestly, the only outcome one can 
arrive at from rigorous logical analysis of those six statements is a 
two-fold one:

(a) Time-traveling machines should not be kept in a drawing room;
(b) Things that are what you expect them to be may be kept in a drawing 
room.

Nothing in Deety's six statements seems to me to connect the two folds of 
the outcome as I've stated it.  I hope someone can show me where I went 
wrong on that analysis.

Vance P. Frickey

"I aim to misbehave."  Captain Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity"

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I don't believe you are wrong, Vance - do you remember the post/essay by 
"Gharlane of Eddore" on TNotB?