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Article 3252 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
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Subject: Re: Viruses: alive?
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Date: 28 Jan 92 15:48:35 GMT
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David Lyndes writes:
 > In article <63531@netnews.upenn.edu>, weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
 > |> In article <TODD.92Jan23223358@ai12.elcom.nitech.ac.jp>, todd@ai12 (Todd Law) writes:
 > |> >>Who says that even biological viruses are alive?
 > |> 
 > |> >My Collins English Dictionary gives the definition of 'organism' as
 > |> 
 > |> Philosophy is not done by quoting dictionaries.
 > |> -- 
 > |> -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)
 > 
 > Doesn't John Austin count as a philosopher?  As I recall, you can summarize
 > Austin's philosophy by pointing at the Oxford English Dictionary. :-)

And I suppose Searle points to the Chinese-English dictionary for all
your AI needs?

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