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Article 6840 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
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Subject: Re: Turing Test Myths (long)
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Date: 9 Sep 92 17:34:38 GMT
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In article <1992Aug13.025506.2404@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
>Then what do ordinary people do?  So far as we know they scarcely use
>any logic at all.  The studies made by the great child psychologist
>Jean Piaget suggest that the abilities required for to manipulating
>formal expressions are not reliably available to children until their
>second decade, if ever.

Many of Piaget's conclusions have been questioned, and later work
has often found evidence pointing the other way.  See, eg, Margaret
Donaldson's book Children's Minds (or somehting like that).

Nonetheless, the general conclusion that people scarcely use logic
at all still seems right.

-- jd


