Miscut Misnomer - A Serious Contribution to the Hobby Being Taken Lightly

[tschock]

Banish them all to the island of misfit cards..... Or my street address.

[Bocabirdman]

If they are not Stepford cards, they MUST BE DESTROYED!!!

[Eric72]

The way I see it, some of us are misanthropes who buy cards. Others amongst us buy cards of misanthropes.

[Peter_Spaeth]

The way I see it, Frank is a misanthrope.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

The way I see it, Frank is a misanthrope.

An eye exam seems indicated.

[drcy]

As a former philosophy student, I can tell you that this is really a question for metaphysics class not a baseball card board.

It definitely involves a misalignment of front and back printing-- and if the back and front were aligned there would be no 'miscut.' However, the cutting comes last. Someone might argue that it is miscut, but that, due to the misalignment printing, it was impossible not to miscut the card.

My point of view is that the making of a card or painting or sculpture is a process involving many things-- but if someone wants to argue that the primary error in the making of the cards was misprinting, I see that as a perfectly reasonable argument. When the back is blank or upside down (but otherwise centered), no one calls it a miscut . . . Though I'm waiting for someone to argue "A blank back could be miscut. You just can't tell."

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by drcy

As a former philosophy student, I can tell you that this is really a question for metaphysics class not a baseball card board.

It definitely involves a misalignment of front and back printing-- and if the back and front were aligned there would be no 'miscut.' However, the cutting comes last. Someone might argue that it is miscut, but that, due to the misalignment printing, it was impossible not to miscut the card.

My point of view is that the making of a card or painting or sculpture is a process involving many things-- but if someone wants to argue that the primary error in the making of the cards was misprinting, I see that as a perfectly reasonable argument. When the back is blank or upside down (but otherwise centered), no one calls it a miscut.

The corollary of my original premise leads to a ridiculous conclusion as well. Given a card that is misaligned (or misprinted if you will), and if it is miscut when partial backs of two cards appear, then one could argue that it would not be miscut if the backs were nicely centered and the front images were split.
I would maintain that this would lead to a reductio ad absurdum in most collectors eyes. Therefore if a misprinted card that cannot be cut correctly, a purist would argue that it cannot be miscut either. An aligned card, front and back, though, can be cut either correctly or miscut. Philosophy, logic and a pair of scissors.

QED

If I were unable to speak, it would be difficult for me to misspeak.