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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What's the Chinese room problem?
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Date: 10 Oct 89 23:44:19 GMT
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In article <5062@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:

;As scientists we ought to be concerned with devising theories that
;explain facts. 

As scientists we ought to be concerned with devising ways of investigating the
world that help us ascertain what the facts are in the first place.