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From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: What AI is exactly.
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Date: 18 Sep 90 14:20:09 GMT
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In article <59525@bbn.BBN.COM> BKort@bbn.com (Barry Kort) writes:
>Thoughts are sentences we say to ourself.

Oh yes?  And what sentences were passing through Beethoven's mind when
he was thinking about his Ninth Symphony, please?

I'll never understand how verbal people can believe that >all< thinking
is verbal.  Reminds me of Quine's claim that when a mouse fears a cat,
he fears that a certain sentence is true!

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