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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Re: Intelligence Testing
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Date: 23 Jan 92 18:06:23 GMT
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In article <42143@dime.cs.umass.edu> 
orourke@sophia.smith.edu (Joseph O'Rourke) writes:

>In article <11774@optima.cs.arizona.edu> 
>gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes:

DG:
>>And _of course_ I define understanding to be a matter of internal
>>self-awareness.

JOR:
>I cannot find a mention of "internal self-awareness" in any definition
>of "understand" in a dictionary.

Dictionary definitions are but a starting point for any philosophical
discussion, and should never be treated as gospel.  Understanding
presupposes consciousness, which presupposes internal self-awareness.
It's all in Locke's "Essay"; look it up.

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