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>From: gindrup@math.okstate.edu (Eric `'d'kidd' G..)
Subject: Re: Systems Reply I (repost perhaps)
Message-ID: <1992May13.153130.8935@math.okstate.edu>
Keywords: AI Searle Dickhead Barf
Organization: Oklahoma State University, Math Department
References: <6637@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1992May5.191454.25793@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <6686@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1992May10.165225.25257@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: Wed, 13 May 1992 15:31:30 GMT
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In article <1992May10.165225.25257@ccu.umanitoba.ca> zirdum@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Antun Zirdum) writes:
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>Therefore Searle is not a good philosopher!
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Depends on what it takes to be a good philosopher.
Is it closing the book on some subtle, difficult question?
Is it asking the hard questions so that others can hash them out?
Is it saying such controversial things that people argue over them for years?
Is it continually changing the definitions so that no one knows what you mean?
Is it looking sage?
Is it writing big books?
...

-Eric Gindrup ! gindrup@hardy.math.okstate.edu


