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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Chinese room miscellanea
Message-ID: <1992Mar17.235343.26537@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 92 23:53:43 GMT
References: <1992Mar13.204017.25480@cs.yale.edu> <1992Mar17.022115.11185@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <6417@skye.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <6417@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) writes:

>right at the start.  What I object to is when anti-CR folk go beyond
>"maybe the system understands" to "the system understands".  And I

  Are you just engaging in unnecessary nitpicking here?  Do you really
expect every sentence to begin with "Under the assumptions of the CR
room ..."?  You are reading far too much into the absence of a "maybe".
Many anti-CR people think the whole CR scenario is preposterous,
and it is only when they temporarily suspend this disbelief that the
talk about the system.  Why should they add an additional superfluous
"maybe"?

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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