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>From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
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Subject: Re: The Philosophical Foibles of John McCarthy
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In-Reply-To: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu's message of 25 Nov 91 23:06:38 GMT

Maybe I'll answer this post about my philosophical foibles
when I get around to following up some of the references.
Quine and Church are people I respect, but I don't regard
them as authoritative in matters that touch on nonmonotonic
reasoning, because they never thought about formalizing it.
--
John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
*
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.


