Timeline for Is the condition '[a value] reduces to [number]' fulfilled when the value reduces to less than the number?
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| Mar 24, 2022 at 14:55 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Puzzling has a logic tag, and this might be on-topic there. But SE does not claim to address every legitimate type of question imaginable. There isn't a dedicated SE 'Logic' site (which would doubtless address the stipulative, non-everyday forced use of language). | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 19:58 | comment | added | Fie | @EdwinAshworth Is there a StackExchange community in which you think this question would better be asked? | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 17:12 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | ELU examines standard English usage. It is off-topic to ask about niche usage and over-literal insistence on selected definitions of words and phrases; that belongs, if anywhere, on a logic website. '[T]his is a question of ... correct usage, not a question of understanding common parlance' is self-contradictory. Usage drives acceptability in standard English. | |
| Mar 23, 2022 at 16:04 | history | edited | Fie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
One more addition to hopefully reduce distrations.
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| Mar 22, 2022 at 22:00 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | I will pay 30. When the price drops below that, I'm still buying and insisting on paying 30. But I'm buying. You'd have to reword to force the buyer not to buy at 30 and below. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 19:39 | vote | accept | Fie | ||
| Mar 16, 2022 at 19:32 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 19:16 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I’m voting to close this question because I feel the language is unnatural and that this frustrates second guessing of the setter's intentions. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 19:15 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'When the price reduces to $30' sounds unnatural to my ears, so I'd be predisposed against trying to read the mind of the setter anyway. 'When the price gets as low as $30' would always be taken as 'When the price falls to $30 or below'. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 17:44 | answer | added | Andy Bonner | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 17:10 | comment | added | Fie | @AndrewLeach Is your position that this question has no definite answer, even when attempting to take a prescriptive approach? The entire purpose of the question depends on ignoring the intention on the part of the speaker: if you think this isn't possible, an answer detailing as much would be much appreciated. :) | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 17:07 | history | edited | Fie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed misuse of 'grammar'.
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 7:41 | comment | added | Andrew Leach♦ | The grammar is straightforward. You are asking about intention: there's no way anyone can determine intention. The puzzle setter may want you to interpret the statement literally, or he may want you to gauge human behaviour. "When the price reduces to 30, I will buy the item" may be interpreted as "The maximum I will pay is 30." I would observe that the item has reduced to 30; in fact it's gone even further. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 5:14 | history | edited | Fie |
Changed tags according to suggestion.
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| Mar 16, 2022 at 5:13 | comment | added | Fie | My apologies. I welcome edits to the tags (or otherwise) if you feel I'm using them incorrectly! I'll change the tags as you suggest until I get other feedback. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 3:20 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | I'm not sure why you insist in the last paragraph that this is a grammar issue and have used the corresponding tag. It seems to me to be an issue of semantics, while the grammar is fairly straightforward. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 1:51 | comment | added | Fie | If you think it's ambiguous (and you can support that assertion), I encourage you to leave an answer to that effect! Please heed the specifics of the question, though: I'm not asking for what someone means, I'm asking for what it does mean. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 1:25 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | IMHO it is a bit ambiguous, but I would assume it means "30 or less". Probably something to take up with the puzzle setter. | |
| Mar 16, 2022 at 1:13 | comment | added | Fie | My apologies for the lengthy and possibly unclear question: this is my first time. :) | |
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| S Mar 16, 2022 at 1:13 | history | asked | Fie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |