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From: rwojcik@bcsaic.UUCP (Rick Wojcik)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.ai
Subject: Re: What's the Chinese room problem?
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Date: 6 Oct 89 19:51:42 GMT
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In article <1989Oct5.080214.7683@agate.berkeley.edu> sp299-ad@violet.berkeley.edu (Celso Alvarez) writes:
>CA> Much more than thoughts are evoked by language.  How do you translate
>CA> the signalling of identity, roles, and social relationships?
>RW>I think that such concepts have to be represented as thought structures,
>RW>since they have an impact on language structure.

>If you're talking about (mental) typifications of social relationships,
>that's one thing.  Typifications generate expectations which underly the

All I meant was that anything which influences linguistic structure ipso facto
has to be represented as some kind of thought structure.  However you want to
represent those thought structures is open to debate.  I agreed with your
implicit point that they are not represented well in modern linguistic theory.
But I don't think that my statement should have generated any controversy. 


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