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Article 6016 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: cto@acpub.duke.edu (Ralph Geiger)
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Subject: Re: lights on, nobody home
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Date: 1 Jun 92 20:58:10 GMT
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In article <22134@castle.ed.ac.uk> cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm) writes:
>
>Just imagine introducing a bunch of medieval philosophers to the
>delights of word processing on the Mac, and then trying to convince
>them there wasn't "really" a little wastepaper basket (trash can)
>inside the computer! How on earth could you prove it to them?
>
Well, how would you explain it to a child?

	--cto


