On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, ais523 wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 13:13 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> If I say "I intend to take the train to Buffalo" I have not made any >>> implication, announcement of intent, nor given any notice whatsoever >>> on whether I might intend to drive a car to Buffalo should the train >>> get stuck in the snow. >> >> But I have given notice that I intend to travel to Buffalo. And that's >> all that the contract required, in this analogy. > > Absolutely incorrect. If you give notice that you will travel by a > specific method, there are two possibilities: (1) if the method doesn't > work, you will travel by another method or (2) if the method doesn't > work, you will not travel at all. It's ambiguous. You have *not* > given notice of intent to perform the action separated from the method.
This. If you give notice that you intend to travel to Buffalo by car, and you can't get your car out of the driveway, I'm not going to wait at the train station. -- -c.
