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- From: doconnor@sedona.intel.com (Dennis O'Connor)
- Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
- Subject: Re: Heraldic questions...
- Date: 28 Dec 92 20:30:08
- Organization: Intel i960(tm) Architecture
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- Message-ID: <DOCONNOR.92Dec28203008@potato.sedona.intel.com>
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- In-reply-to: Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org's message of Sat, 26 Dec 1992 22:34:46
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- Tim@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Tim) writes:
- ] [vis-a-vis heraldric devices]
- ] we are bound (however tenuously) to authenticity, and so long
- ] as we constitute a single Known-World-wide unitary heraldic jurisdiction,
- ] that requirement of authenticity binds us to have a consistent armorial
- ] style, whether adopted from a period jurisdiction or developed on our
- ] own account.
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- Axiom_1 : we must be authentic : (meaning true to Period practice, I assume)
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- Prop_1 : we must have a consistant armorial style
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- Problem : prove or disprove the theorum
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- "If Axiom_1 then Prop_1"
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- Method Chosen : Disproof by Counterexample
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- All period heraldric devices were not consistant with
- any one consistant armorial style. Therefor, one can be
- authentic without being consistant to any particular style.
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- Q.E.D.
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- Dennis O'Connor doconnor@sedona.intel.com
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