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>From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Causes and Goals (was re: The Systems Reply I
Message-ID: <1992Mar26.003406.20795@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 92 00:34:06 GMT
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In article <B7J5HB1w164w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> arktik@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Ryan Daum) writes:
>> 
>>   This is analogous to the computer expressing meaning debate.  The issue
>> here that I keep raising is that there must be an intensional agent SOMEWHERE
>> The act itself may not be intensional; however the interpretation must be.
>> In this way, we can derive the expressive meaning.
>> 
>
> But what about the Existentialist assertion that all actions are 
>intentional in that the existent in question is ultimately capable of 
>eradicating them?
  Usually the Existentialist assertion relies on some notion of agency
Some of this stuff relies on the notion of Dasein.  When I wrote the
above, I think the guy(was it you?) was talking about a monkeys tail
inadvertantly going up.  In this case, he claimed, there was an action
without intension.  I maintained there was intension by any agent viewing
that tail in a meaningful way.

>  arktik@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca -- Ryan Werner Daum -- "A man leaves his


BCnya,
 Charles O. Onstott, III

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