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From: dsa@dlogics.COM (David Angulo)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Hayes vs. Searle
Summary: Do DBMS's understand accounting?
Message-ID: <590@dlogics.COM>
Date: 14 Jun 90 22:17:41 GMT
References: <2687@skye.ed.ac.uk> <36091@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <587@dlogics.COM> <36193@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
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In article <36193@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, martin@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (david l. martin) writes:
> I think out of fairness to Searle we have to grant that he has been arguing
> about computer programs in the conventional sense of the term.  Any such
> program can be viewed as a set of instructions in some language.  If there
> is a computer that can run the program, then conceivably Searle could carry out
> the same set of instructions (albeit at a much slower pace, with the
> help of pencil and paper, etc., etc.).
> 

I think that this is comparable to data base managers.  Does DBase II
understand accounting?  How about SQL?  Searle certainly made his "book"
seem to have all the answers for any question somewhat like a list.  That's
why it seems so counter-intuitive.
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