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From: oz@nexus.yorku.ca (ozan s. yigit)
Subject: Re: Hume. Hobbes, & the Computational Metaphor.
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Chris Malcolm:

   It is claimed (without reference) in Luger & Stubblefield's textbook
   "Artificial Intelligence" that Hume first asserted that "cognition was
   computation". I'd like to find the ref in Hume for this. [...]

here is one possibility from "Enquiry" but "Treatise" may contain
something closer to what you are looking for.

    But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty,
    we shall find, upon a nearer examination, that it is really confined
    within very narrow limits, and that all this creative power of the
    mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing,
    augmenting or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses
    and experience. [1]

oz
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[1] David Hume
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    Hackett, 1977.
