I hate to break up the fun, and I’m sure we could keep going on about this, but Decius’s original point was just that giving a wrong answer to an open-ended question is trivially easy. We can play word games and come up with elaborate counter-factuals, but the substance of that point is clearly correct, so maybe we should just move on.
That was exactly the challenge I issued. Granted, it’s trivial to write an answer which is wrong for that question, but it shows that I can’t find a wrong answer for an arbitrary question as easily as I thought I could.
I hate to break up the fun, and I’m sure we could keep going on about this, but Decius’s original point was just that giving a wrong answer to an open-ended question is trivially easy. We can play word games and come up with elaborate counter-factuals, but the substance of that point is clearly correct, so maybe we should just move on.
That was exactly the challenge I issued. Granted, it’s trivial to write an answer which is wrong for that question, but it shows that I can’t find a wrong answer for an arbitrary question as easily as I thought I could.