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>From: orourke@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
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Subject: Re: Searle, again
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Date: 10 Dec 91 02:44:16 GMT
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In article <40333@dime.cs.umass.edu> I wrote:

>>	I fail to see Searle's claim that symbols have no causal
>>power.

In article <5829@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) replied:

>Does he claim this?  ...

Searle: "...formal symbols have no physical, causal powers."
p. 30, col. 3, Sci. Am. Jan. 1990.


