Oh, so by “Will” you mean “any account controlled by Will” not “the account called Will_Newsome”. I think everyone else interpreted it as the latter.
Nick, it was pretty obvious to me that lessdazed and CuSithBell meant the person Will, not “any account controlled by Will” or “the account called Will_Newsome”—it doesn’t matter if the person would be using an account in order to lie, or an email in order to lie, or Morse code in order to lie, just that they would be lying.
It was “obvious” to me that lessdazed didn’t mean that and it would’ve been obvious to me that CuSithBell did mean that if I hadn’t been primed to interpret his/her comment in the light of lessdazed’s comment. Looking back I’m still not sure what lessdazed intended, but at this point I’m starting to think he/she meant the same as CuSithBell but unfortunately put an underscore betwen “Will” and “Newsome”, confusing the matter.
Oh, so by “Will” you mean “any account controlled by Will” not “the account called Will_Newsome”.
I think everyone else interpreted it the other way.
Well, this was my first post in the thread. I assume you are referring to this post by lessdazed? I thought at the time of my post that lessdazed was using it in the former way (though I’d phrase it “the person Will Newsome”), as you say—either Will lied with the Will account, or told the truth with the Will account and was thus AK, and thus lying with the AK account.
I now think it’s possible that they meant to make neither assumption, instead claiming that if the accounts were inconsistent in this way (if the Will account could not “control” the AK account) then this would indicate that Will (the account and person) was lying about being AK. This claim fails if Will can be expected to engage in deliberate trickery (perhaps inspired by lessdazed’s post), which I think should be a fairly uncontentious assertion.
Oh, so by “Will” you mean “any account controlled by Will” not “the account called Will_Newsome”.
I think everyone else interpreted it as the latter.
(I’m sort of surprised that folk don’t immediately see things like this… is it a skill maybe?)
Nick, it was pretty obvious to me that lessdazed and CuSithBell meant the person Will, not “any account controlled by Will” or “the account called Will_Newsome”—it doesn’t matter if the person would be using an account in order to lie, or an email in order to lie, or Morse code in order to lie, just that they would be lying.
It was “obvious” to me that lessdazed didn’t mean that and it would’ve been obvious to me that CuSithBell did mean that if I hadn’t been primed to interpret his/her comment in the light of lessdazed’s comment. Looking back I’m still not sure what lessdazed intended, but at this point I’m starting to think he/she meant the same as CuSithBell but unfortunately put an underscore betwen “Will” and “Newsome”, confusing the matter.
Well, this was my first post in the thread. I assume you are referring to this post by lessdazed? I thought at the time of my post that lessdazed was using it in the former way (though I’d phrase it “the person Will Newsome”), as you say—either Will lied with the Will account, or told the truth with the Will account and was thus AK, and thus lying with the AK account.
I now think it’s possible that they meant to make neither assumption, instead claiming that if the accounts were inconsistent in this way (if the Will account could not “control” the AK account) then this would indicate that Will (the account and person) was lying about being AK. This claim fails if Will can be expected to engage in deliberate trickery (perhaps inspired by lessdazed’s post), which I think should be a fairly uncontentious assertion.