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Re: I would have been creating models now but the computer is acting weird.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 31 Jul 2001 23:44:48 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> Metaphysical rumination:
>
> If a thread is redirected, but the thread dies before
> any posts can be "redirected," has the thread actually
> been redirected?
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> (Is the cat in the box alive or dead? Is that why Schulz
> picked "Schroeder" and not "Schroedinger?")
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> LFB
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> (In either case, this thread *has* been redirected, even if
> I do kill it. Not the cat, the thread.)
But you cannot know whether you've killed it until someone opens the box, which
I suppose I've just done. So you didn't kill it, but now maybe I will (not
the cat, the thread).
(And why a cat rather than a dog?? I suppose a dog might upset the hypothetical
apparatus before it could be properly set up...)
Maggie C.
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