[blml] concession

[Eric Landau]

On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Sven Pran wrote:

>> On Behalf Of Tim West-Meads
> ................
>>> Therefore also my sample statement "You get three tricks" when
>>> there are five more to play is a claim (of the two other tricks) as
>>> good as any.
>>
>> But it isn't a claim according to L68A.
>
> If that statement isn't a statement to the effect that the player  
> will take
> two of the remaining five tricks I do not know the meaning of the  
> words "to
> the effect that". And I am pretty sure that I do indeed know the  
> meaning of
> these words.

ISTM that if a concession were a claim and claim were a concession,  
there would be a law in TFLB governing "any statement to the effect  
that a contestant will win or lose a specific number of tricks".   
Since there are two entirely different laws, one for "win" and one  
for "lose", the authors must have seen some difference between them  
that Sven doesn't.


Eric Landau
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