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>From: orourke@unix1.cs.umass.edu (Joseph O'Rourke)
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Subject: Re: Searle, again
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Date: 10 Dec 91 02:48:15 GMT
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In article <gdExS2K00WBMA4ccBG@andrew.cmu.edu> fb0m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Franklin Boyle) writes:
>Joseph O'Rourke writes:
>
>> 	I fail to see Searle's claim that symbols have no causal
>> power.
>
>He doesn't say they have no causal powers. ...

Searle: "...formal symbols have no physical, causal powers."
p. 30, col. 3, Sci. Am., Jan. 1990


