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Re: FS-Pirate & Town Sets Mint In Sealed Boxes/Pack
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:56:24 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Charles Eric McCarthy writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> >
> > In lugnet.market.theory, Todd Lehman writes:
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> > > Paul certainly is right: SBA's and OBO's are the same thing.
> >
> > No they're not! Not in the LUGNET namespace they aren't... They're named
> > differently, and thus are not in the same equivalence class when partitioned
> > by the partitioning function "allowed in market.buy-sell-trade?". The fact
> > that this is their only difference is interesting but insufficient to assert
> > equality under this partitioning, which is, after all, the partitioning of
> > interest.
>
> They are two names for the same concept, i.e. "thing". Therefore, they
> *are* the same thing. If one person calls you Lar and another Mr. P,
> that doesn't make Lar and Mr. P different people.
>
> Also, the groups do not form a partition. SBA/OBO is allowed in both.
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> What is allowed in the groups is based on the concept, and there is an
> overlap in the case of SBA/OBO. It will reduce confusion if we call
> SBA/OBO "SBA" when posted in the auction group, and "OBO" when posted
> in the b-s-t group, but that doesn't make them different things, it
> just means they have different names in different contexts.
I'm not sure I agree.
Please conduct the following (thought?) experiment, then... post a SBA/OBO
(for the same thing) to both groups, and in buy-sell-trade, label it SBA,
fully delineating the definition Todd posted so there can be no doubt that
it has the SBA/OBO nature. Conversely, in auction, do the same except label
it OBO.
My contention is that Todd will have to, in this thought experiment,
chastise you for posting an auction to bst, or else be inconsistent with
what he himself stated previously about what is allowed in bst. Thus proving
the existence of a partition in the LUGNet namespace.
I suggest YOU carry out the experiment to satisfy yourself, as I am already
satisfied of my correctness (in this and so many other things, but I digress).
++Lar
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