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>From: hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Definition of understanding
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>From article <1992Feb28.064104.9265@husc3.harvard.edu>, by zeleny@brauer.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny):
[...]
>>>In article <1992Feb23.044200.29383@mp.cs.niu.edu> 
>>>rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> 

[...]

MZ
> No person => no mind => no understanding.



Good lord.  I find myself agreeing with Mikhail in public.

I'm afraid he's right Neil.  Personal identity won't conform the way
you'd like it to.  

But good grief, doesn't anybody read *Hume* anymore?


hiho
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