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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: What counts as the "Right" functional organization?
Message-ID: <1992Apr14.181138.8475@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:11:38 GMT
References: <1992Apr5.210553.11966@psych.toronto.edu> <1992Apr14.064526.16723@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Apr14.142239.7807@psych.toronto.edu>
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In article <1992Apr14.142239.7807@psych.toronto.edu> christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green) writes:
>In article <1992Apr14.064526.16723@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:

>>No, not necessarily.  A functionalist need only hold that beliefs result
>>from the *right* functional organization, not from any old functional
>>organization.

>Okay, then you'd better start specifying what counts as the "right" functional
>organization lest you slip into a Davidsonian circle.  Actually, snarkiness
>aside, I'm honestly interested in what might count as right and not right.

 I hope we can avoid discussions of "what is the right functional organization
for belief (or understanding, etc)."  A discussion of "what is the right
functional organization" might be ok.  But once you pin it to terms such
as 'belief' or 'understanding' or 'semantics' you run into the problem of
these terms not being sufficiently well defined, and the discussion will
quickly degenerate into arguments about issues that are not really central.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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