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From: mjs14@unix.brighton.ac.uk (shute)
Subject: Re: Strong AI and consciousness
Message-ID: <1994Dec5.170827.6076@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
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Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1994 17:08:27 GMT
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>In article <D009F1.F03@spss.com> markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder) writes:
>>Suppose we decided tomorrow to divide "blue" into two terms, as Russian
>>does.  We will use "blue" for dark blue and "eulb" for sky blue.  Your
>>and Jeff's position seems to be that a present statement that the sky is 
>>blue is *wrong*, because the sky is in face eulb.  And I'm saying that
>>that's absurd.

Just for the sake of adding a data point, for those who might be interested,
can I suggest two real examples of this happening.

One is the word 'element' (as used by the ancient Greeks, versus modern
use) [as I've already mentioned in an earlier article].

The other (which is closer to your blue-vs-azure example) is the term
'son-in-law', which in the past could either mean what we still, today,
mean by the term 'son-in-law', *or* what we now mean by the term 'step-son',
depending on context.

(Just my tuppence worth :-).
-- 

Malcolm SHUTE.         (The AM Mollusc:   v_@_ )        Disclaimer: all
