Posted by dorayme on 02/02/07 04:11

In article <OdCdnZBVCecPLl_YnZ2dnUVZ_tijnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Ed Mullen <ed@edmullen.net> wrote:

> > Well, what you are doing, if I may say, is concentrating on the
> > cases that make it hard to know. This does not make the clear
> > cases disappear. Simply imagine a clearer case, your wife gives
> > you a list of things to get from the dairy section. Or a
> > particular shelf even!
>
> Are you saying that order, in this example, makes no difference?

What am saying is that if you were to make a shopping list which
you would access on your handheld to remind yourself in the store
and the list was of items on one small shelf, the order of the
items might well not matter. If the order mattered to you, you
might use an ordered list even in this case (to indicate to get
the lower order numbered items first in case you run out of money.

There is no denying the sense of the distinction, but it is an
interesting question (when not flirting with sea monkeys, say)
how it fits in real life cases.

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dorayme

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