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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Re: Virtual Person? (was re: Searle and the Chine
Keywords: personal identity
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Date: 20 Dec 91 19:16:59 GMT
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In article <335@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:

>I consider semantics to be a necessary precondition to producing a convincing,
>unrestricted dialog with human beings.  [Eliza only works if you keep
>to a very restricted dialog pattern].  So, I would take the success of the
>CR as a priori evidence that it had semantic processes.

Perhaps after you look up the definition of `a priori' that renders your
notion of "a priori evidence" an oxymoron, you would do the same for
`petitio principii', a nice example of which is given in your argument.

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