On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:59 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ais523 was a person on Agora's birthday. >> >> Argument against: By eir own admission, e was not capable of >> communicating in English via email during Agora's birthday. > > I think the evidence is strong that this is about general capability, > not capability at any certain time. If we're talking specific points > in time here, then nobody's capable of sending email in English except > during the split second they're pressing the "send" button; if, on the > other hand, we speak of capability as meaning the ability to do > whatever it is at some point in the future, then we're all people all > the time, but my hypothetical pet dog is not, as he never has sent an > email in English and probably never will.
What if the dog jumps up on the computer and hits the send button. Has it sent an english message?
