Kerim Aydin wrote: >CotC Murphy took it for granted that "I CFJ on this statement." self- >labeled the whole sentence "I CFJ on this statement" as a CFJ statement, >and that "I CFJ on that statement." referenced a quoted "I CFJ on this >statement."
I found it quite clear, in those messages, that that was exactly what was going on. >An "announcement which includes the statement to be inquired into" as >required by R591 could apply to a whole sentence, or a clause such as >"this statement" or even just "statement." "this statement" and "statement" are not statements. We might liberally accept such sentence fragments as statements for CFJ purposes if they are explicitly delimited as the subject of a CFJ, but it is not reasonable to expect them to be treated as statements otherwise. They create no ambiguity as to what the subjects of the CFJ is when there is no explicit delimitation. -zefram
