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[OG_Gleep]

Cainehill said:
It'd be so #@*#ing nice if Illwinter would make such things a little easier to track.

Yeah an in game note pad would be great, diplomacy screen, anything to help track the deals you have in place would be most welcome. Nah had a good idea, he has been keeping a log of all agreements, and important events. Think I am going to start doing that.

[Valandil]

Out of curiosisty, I will investiagte the possibility that calling a dog a cat DOES in fact make it one.

Let us start from the assumption: all dogs are cats.
Then, by logical extension, all non-dogs are non-cats.
If assumption (A) is false, cats are not dogs. This is (B).
A bit of speculation then:
A cat and a dog are very similar: both are quadrupedal, mobile, fur-covered, mammals. Both have similar habits and both have been domesticated for many, many years.
Is it not possible that the only reason (B) appears true is that we believe it?
If (A) were the accepted norm, would it be true?
Based on theory, not fact, observing an object causes that object to be 'isolated' and cease to be a collection of prabablilities.
The question is whether belief also isolates prabability waves, without the object being observed.

(This is a fundamental part of quantum theory) The value of the observable A lies in the range B (*).
One possible reading of (*) is operational: "measurement of the observable A would yield (or will yield, or has yielded) a value in the set B ". On this view, projections represent statements about the possible results of measurements. Also, its possible to interpret (*) as a property ascription: "the system has a certain categorical property, which corresponds to the observable A having, independently of any measurement, a value in the set B".
in which the existance is indepentant of the observed, and which MIGHT allow belief modified existance.

So, maybe, depending on our interpretation of Quantum Probability, saying a dog is a cat, and BELIEVING it, causes the dog to be, or to have once been, or to possibly be, a cat.

Granted, I'm not exactly Feynman, so I might have gone a little overboard.

Valandil, in association with Schrodinger's Cat-Dog
Edit: Quote still not working

[Endoperez]

Depends. For one, even if dogs were cats, cats might still be cats. Because of that, you can't say that all non-dogs are non-cats.

If we presumed that the word "cat" would mean a dog, and only a dog, however... A cat would be canus canus, a member of a domesticated species with similarities to wolves. The name with which we call dogs doesn't chance the dogs themselves - the only attribute that would chance is our perception of them, and even in that case it probably wouldn't change besides the name we would call them.