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From: lammens@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Joe Lammens)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: AI & Derrida (was: Re: Speech Act Interpretation:... (Unisys AI Seminar))
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Date: 10 Oct 89 02:17:21 GMT
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In article <10744@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) writes:
>
>;Evidently Artificial Intelligence has not yet met Jacques Derrida.
>
>I've been asked to explain myself. Well now, just didn't you fall into the
>trap though. Even with a sophisticated system to analyze the underlying 
>structure of what I said, namely your brain, general knowledge about the 
>world and the ability to make inferences, you still can't identify the 
>correct interpretation of what I said, namely the identification of my 
>intentions. 
>

Next thing you know we'll be reading deconstructionist `theory' in
this newsgroup. Before that happens: that is of no possible importance
to AI. Even the people who are going on and on about not being able to
deduce the writer's intentions from a text, how a text is a world in
itself with a million meanings and how it is full of contradictions,
do not apply their own `theories' to their own writings on the
subject, since that would imply that their writings are meaningless or
at least not usable as vehicles for talking about their beloved
subject. They very much want their readers to deduce the writer's
intentions from the text, though they'd probably rather drop dead than
admit it :-). Sound confusing? It's nothing compared to
deconstructionism.

Of deconstructionists, Save us Lord!

Joe Lammens

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