Appeal: clarification
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- #6871:14:57upheld Jay Dyer epainos: clarification (+1)
The council upheld the call: Jay Dyer earned 1 point.
“Your argument hinges on only counting in one way, and you're taking out of context the fact that doctor Branson said that most people today post Fraga [Frege] think of counting on one way when this is a dispute about the way the people in the ancient medieval world counted…”
Diogenes: He locates precisely what Branson's claim was about — modern post-Fregean practice — and states why that does not settle the historical question actually in dispute.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: Dyer's standing position, held since his opening statement, is that different types of things (first-order concrete objects vs. second-order abstract objects) are counted differently, and this line is a defense of that same framework against Jake's use of the Branson quote, not a new move. The quoted line is not a request for clarification (no question is asked) but a substantive rebuttal with premises and a conclusion: Branson's claim concerns modern post-Fregean counting practice, the dispute concerns ancient/medieval counting practice, therefore the quote does not settle the point at issue — this fits "explicit argument" rather than "clarification," but the underlying reasoning is real and on-point, so the callout is defensible under a corrected label.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "framework objection", on the same ledger as the callout. Jay names the presupposition he denies in Jake's use of Branson's quote — that a modern, post-Frege analytic convention of counting settles a dispute that is actually about how the ancient and medieval world (first-order vs second-order imposition, a distinction Jay had already laid out in his opening statement) counted things. He says explicitly which question must be settled first (the ancient/medieval counting convention), rather than simply declining to answer.
- Plato uphold: On the record: Jay's position since the opening has been that "different things are counted in different ways" citing ancient/medieval first- and second-order imposition; this line continues that same thread by distinguishing Branson's claim about modern post-Fregean counting practice from the ancient/medieval dispute actually at issue. The quote is not a request for a definition or clarification (Jay asks nothing here), so "clarification" is the wrong label; but the line does state a real premise-conclusion move distinguishing what Branson's cited claim actually covers from what the ancient/medieval counting dispute requires, which is a legitimate philosopher-ledger point.
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