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>From: wallingf@pleiades.cps.msu.edu (Eugene Wallingford)
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Subject: Heidegger
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> It is also true that most of my colleagues find Heidegger
> impenetrable or irrelevant, so I refrain from making a
> general recommendation.

     What is a good place to start in reading Heidegger?  Allan Bloom's
     discussion of his work was quite "impenetrable" at times to me,
     but he continues to pop up as relevant in a number of contexts
     important to AI.  It seems that I should read his work for myself.

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~~~~ Eugene Wallingford             ~~~~   AI/KBS Laboratory         ~~~~
~~~~ wallingf@pleiades.cps.msu.edu  ~~~~   Michigan State University ~~~~


