Brendan wrote:I expressly acknowledged, in a later post, that it was possible that you had considered and abandoned that particular permutation.
It's also possible that I have considered and not abandoned that particular assignment, but have offered for consideration a roster that elides it.
Do I think it's likely? No. In my experience, you have two primary strategies when you lay out your thinking: intentionally leave out or misrepresent nuances in the hope of forcing someone into misspeaking, or exhaustively list every possibility (or at least admit that you'd left something out.)
My repertory is somewhat broader than that. I return to those two with some frequency only because they have proven their potency in the field.
You didn't do the latter. Did you do the former? Perhaps.
In the post in question, I stated exactly what I was doing. All your complaints presuppose that I was doing something other than what I said I was doing.
Why is that?
The real question to you is now why you think I ought to know better.
I chose to use "combination" rather than "permutation", since every combination is a permutation and since my emphasis was on the particular assignments.
You silently amended to "permutation" in your reply.
That's why I know that you know better.
After all, would it make sense that someone who pretends to be able to summarize my bag of tricks could not also tell the difference between "Here's an assignment" and "Here's an epitome of all possible assignments"?