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From: bwk@mbunix.mitre.org (Barry W. Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: IQ is not static, genetic differences inconsequential.
Summary: Reliable extraction of the semantic content of speech.
Keywords: Intention and meaning.
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Date: 6 Aug 89 12:49:12 GMT
References: <485@edai.ed.ac.uk> <4481@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
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In article <4481@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
(Greg Lee) writes:

 > From article <485@edai.ed.ac.uk>, by cam@edai.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm
 > cam@uk.ac.ed.edai   031 667 1011 x2550):

 > > Studies of human ability to understand and generate complex
 > > sentence structures show strict limitations on our ability
 > > to handle levels of abstraction.

I understand that sentence very well.

 > Bull.

I am unable to extract the intended semantic content of that utterance.

--Barry Kort