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From: kovsky@netcom.com (Bob Kovsky)
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John McCarthy wrote:
>It is very common to give natural language words technical meanings.

	I see now:

	The "technical meaning" of <intelligence> is "the movement of 
electrical impulses in and out of a CPU."

	The "technical meaning" of <truth> is "the writer's conviction 
about a proposition regardless of its relation to the facts."

	Hence, when an AI dogmatist writes:  "The truth is computers employ 
intelligence" he is not only correct, but redundant.

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