[Dragaera] Boing!

[Philip Hart]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:

> >> Even if we stipulate it's only .1%, how do you justify that the
> remainder
> >> can be completely ignored?
> >
> >And Davdi was completely ignoring the remainder where?  Maybe in his
> >proposed formulation which explicitly noted it?
>
> Well, he wasn't so much ignoring it, as he was discounting it. Poor choice
> of verb there, apologies.

I don't think "discount" is much better.  You're running I think into a
sorites-like problem - he's saying "this is a pile of white marbles with
one blue marble in it - taking out the blue marble leaves a pile of white
marbles", while you're saying, "this a pile of marbles including a blue
marble, to note there are some white marbles is to discount the blue one".